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Pope criticizes death penalty after Hegseth announces public execution

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Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty “an attack” on human dignity a day after senior Church officials condemned the Pentagon’s plans to live-stream an execution of Nidal Malik Hasan.

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Both outlets center the death penalty and the planned US livestream execution, but they frame the story differently. Reuters foregrounds Amnesty International UK’s criticism, describing the plan as “theater” and calling it “barbaric and deeply shocking,” while Newsweek foregrounds Pope Leo’s denunciation of the death penalty as “inadmissible” because it attacks human dignity.

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