(John Lavenburg, Crux) A top Vatican official has asked Louisiana’s Democratic Gov. John Bel
Edwards to use his executive powers to clear the state’s death row, as
the governor himself has in the past expressed opposition to the death
penalty citing his own Catholic faith. Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy of
Life, penned the letter to Edwards on Sept. 26, emphasizing that “every
human life is sacred,” and that the move would be a “monumental step”
towards the abolition of the death penalty in the future. (...)
