[Rodentking]

Interesting point of view for one whose organization has never admitted the Inquisition or burning at the stake were bad ideas. Oh, well.

[Artemis Webb]

I like pepperoni on my pizza.

[PGR88]

Maybe if they dissect her, and sell her organs for medical research, with US Government support, the Pope won’t mind so much...

[South40]

A call from the WH to Governor Deal is in the making.

[fwdude]

“Separation of church and state!” Remember, liberals?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

“There comes a time in the history of every people when they become so pathologically soft and tender that they actually side with those elements of their society that harms them; i.e. criminals”-F. Nietzsche

[gaijin]

Devil Pope.

[Cicero]

As Robert A. Heinlein would have said, “MYOB, Pope.”

[Robe]

Pope Francis, who called for a ban on the death penalty

Curious... Doesn't this Pope realize that without the death penalty, there wouldn't be Christianity

[Tennessee Nana]

was this death penalty case the object of the pope’s political rhetoric when he was here ???

4,000 innocent babies died today ...innocent, not guilty of murder, no due process... no decision of the death penalty for any crime other than they were alive and growing due to a sex act committed willing by their female parent ...where’s the pope’s tears ???

[Ohioan]

commute the sentence to one that would better express both justice and mercy,"

What sentence could better reflect that consideration than the present sentence? It sounds as though the Court correctly met the stated criteria.

[SeaHawkFan]

When Westley Allan Dodd gave his life to Christ very soon after he was arrested, he immediately pled guilty, insisted that he be given the death sentence by hanging, and then did everything possible to expedite his execution.

That is a true conversion, and even though he was saved, he insisted on paying the maximum penalty for his crime.

[Paul R.]

I was looking at the comments on a slightly earlier story about this murderess, on Yahoo News, and, not ONE comment on the 1st page was in favor of anything but immediate execution, even if it was painful. (That was as far as I read.)

On Yahoo? Wow, people really are getting fed up...

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The Pope ought to be appealing for her to accept the consequences of her crime and express true repentance for it. He’s a complete materialist; I see nothing of the spiritual in him.

[John123]

Doug's family said it best: "As the murderer, she's been given more rights and opportunity over the last 18 years than she ever afforded to Doug who, again, is the victim here. She had no mercy, gave him no rights, no choices, nor the opportunity to live his life. His life was not hers to take."

She cheated on him, planned the 1st degree murder [and admitted it] so she can keep the house and insurance money. And yet, there are apologists out there using reasons that don't matter.

Doug is the victim here... not the convicted murderer.

[Repeal The 17th]

[Gritty]

Pope Francis, who called for a ban on the death penalty ...

It appears the Pope hasn't read his Bible lately. God Himself commanded;

"Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed;
For in the image of God
He made man."
- Genesis 9:6

On the other hand, maybe we ought to cut the Pope some slack. After all, it's hard to keep all that Global Warming Science straight along with the Bible, too!

[vpintheak]

We he laws in America. Some abide by them, pope.

[Cementjungle]

Personally, I think I would prefer the death penalty over live without parole if it were me.

[Dacula]

Two hours to go....