[CouncilofTrent]

St. Thomas Aquinas states that the killing of a criminal, if it is necessary for the whole communtity, is lawful.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

And the Bible in numerous places specifies the killing of a criminal too. Now the greatest irony is that the liberals who are running the Catholic Church are specifying no capital punishment for vicious criminals, with the backdrop of the central figure and theme of the religion being the capital punishment of The Savior; one can conclude the vicious criminals sordid lives are more held to be by some twisted liberal logic to be more precious than the the Life of the Saviour. And did Jesus, who was crucified along with two convicted criminals, one of which we know was a thief, say anything about the "unjust" penalty meted out to them, He did not!