article_snippet: Following their audience with the Pope at the Vatican on Friday, Pope Francis wrote the principle of 'legitimate personal defence' does not justify executing someone.
article_snippet: The Argentine pontiff said: 'When the Death Penalty is applied, the Death Penalty is not for a current act of aggression, but rather for an act committed in the past. '
article_snippet: Nowadays the Death Penalty is inadmissible, no matter how serious the crime committed.'
article_snippet: Self defence: Following the campaign group's audience with the Pope at the Vatican on Friday, Pope Francis wrote the principle of 'legitimate personal defence' does not justify executing someone.
article_snippet: For the rule of law, the Death Penalty represents a failure, as the Death Penalty obliges the state to kill in the name of justice.'
article_snippet: But there is no humane way of killing another person.'
article_snippet: The Argentina pontiff who is visiting Naples today said that 'when the Death Penalty is applied, the Death Penalty is not for a current act of aggression, but rather for an act committed in the past .