"Even when there is question of a person condemned to death, the state does not take away the 'right' of the individual to life. It is then reserved to the public authority to deprive the condemned person of the 'benefit' of life in expiation for his guilt, after he himself, by his crime, has already deprived himself of his right to life.
(Acta Apostolicae Sedis XLIV (1952), p. 787)
Thanks for the Ping. I don’t typically spend too much time in the News forum.