WNBC Today September 30, 2015
That came after a fleury of lastminute appeals failed. The archbishop wrote to the parole board on behalf of pope francis who called for a world wide ban on his Death Penalty during his visit to the united states. An unjust and necessary punishment should never exclude the hope and the goal of rehabilitation. Papal appeals for individual cases not unheard of. John paul ii was successful in getting a missouri inmate off death row. That was in 1999. The sentence commuted to life without parole. Speaking of pope francis, theres word this morning that during his u. S. Trip he met secretly with kim...