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Date: October 18, 2007

 

National Priests' Leader Comments on Execution and Pain

 

 Washington, DC - Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, issued the following statement this morning:

"I was happy to see the news that the Supreme Court halted the execution of a Virginia death row inmate, as the Court considers whether lethal injections constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment.'  At issue is not the constitutionality of the death penalty itself, but rather the specific way in which the lethal injections work, and the question of whether the person being executed might experience excruciating pain and yet not be able to express that because of the paralyzing effects of the drug.

"It brings to mind the 'Fetal Pain Awareness Act,' a bill which gives that same consideration to unborn children being ripped apart by abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy and beyond.  Credible studies have raised the possibility that these children feel pain in the process of being aborted.  Like the death row inmate, however, they can't express that pain.

"So even without raising the issue of whether abortion itself is constitutional, could we not halt the execution of these children out of the same humanitarian concern of sparing fellow human beings pain?"

Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.

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