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Posted on 10/10/2026 11:42:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) President Archbishop Paul Coakley on Oct. 9 condemned the Pentagon’s plan to livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan as a “barbaric promotion of a culture of death.”
The statement comes shortly after the War Department confirmed plans to livestream the execution of Hasan, the former Army major convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in the 2009 Fort Hood, Texas, shooting. Hasan, who described the attack as an act of jihad, is scheduled to be executed Dec. 3 at Fort Hood. A military jury convicted him in 2013 and sentenced him to death.
“It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War’s decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan,” Archbishop Coakley said in a statement. “Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan’s actions be condoned, but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.”
He cited Romans 12:17 — “do not repay anyone evil for evil” — and added that a public execution “will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.”
“I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances,” Archbishop Coakley concluded.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an Oct. 8 interview that the execution would be public “because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.”
“He’s gonna get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be,” Hegseth said. “We’ll make sure that people are about to watch it.”
According to Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell, President Donald Trump approved Hasan’s execution by an Army firing squad on Hegseth’s recommendation. The approval came days after Tennessee’s botched lethal-injection execution of Christa Pike, who survived.
The U.S. military has not executed a prisoner since 1961 or used a firing squad for an execution since 1945, Fox News reported. Hasan is imprisoned on military death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Curious how the church felt about public execution prior to the advent of television. Seems like executions in the public square worked well for centuries to prevent ne’er-do-wells from executing on their own malicious intentions.
So what. Does he condemn the millions of abortions?
Religious leaders need to stay in their lane.
Plus, evidence to the public that the punishment will be implemented. Need to streamline the process to implement timely. I feel the delay in executing justly creates a cruel an unusual punishment on the victims and families of victims.
## 🔥 How Many People Were Burned Alive Because of Catholic Church Persecution?
There is **no reliable single number** for the entire history of the Catholic Church. Records are incomplete, and responsibility was often divided between **Church authorities and secular governments**.
| Persecution / Institution | Approx. Executions | Important Note |
|-—|-—:|-—|
| **Spanish Inquisition** | **3,000–5,000** | Total executions; **not all were burned alive** |
| **Roman Inquisition** | **~1,500–2,000** | Total executions; not exclusively burning |
| **Medieval Inquisitions** | **Thousands** | Records vary greatly by region and period |
| **European Witch Trials** | **~40,000–50,000** | **Not a Catholic Church death toll** — included Catholic *and* Protestant territories and were generally conducted by secular courts |
| **Catholic religious persecutions outside the Inquisitions** | **Unknown** | Includes various medieval and early-modern persecutions |
### The important distinction
The Catholic Church did **not normally carry out executions itself**. In many cases, Church courts investigated and convicted people of heresy and then **handed them over to secular authorities**, who carried out the death sentence.
Consequently, there are three different numbers people sometimes confuse:
**1. People executed by inquisitorial tribunals**
**2. People executed by secular authorities following ecclesiastical proceedings**
**3. Everyone killed in religious persecution in predominantly Catholic Europe**
Those are **not the same population**.
### So what’s a reasonable overall estimate?
If the question is:
> **“How many people were burned alive as a consequence of Catholic ecclesiastical persecution?”**
I would describe the answer as **“several thousand”**, rather than claiming a precise number.
I would **not** use figures such as 50,000, 100,000, or millions as a Catholic Church death toll. Those figures generally result from combining very different forms of religious persecution or using historically inflated estimates.
**Bottom line:** *Several thousand people were executed following Catholic inquisitorial/religious persecution over the centuries, with some substantial portion executed by burning, but there is no defensible precise total for people burned alive by—or because of—the Catholic Church.*
Now I know it should be televised . The pedo/atheist church is against it.
I’ve written before about the last official Vatican executioner. When people saw him walking along the path outside they quickly gathered until a large crowd eagerly awaited watching an execution. Seeing him meant someone was about to die that day. There is a museum style collection of his favorite instruments: a bludgeon club, various long blades and a guillotine (one of the favorites).
“The last official executioner of the Vatican’s Papal States was Giovanni Battista Bugatti, who served from 1796 until his retirement in 1865, carrying out 516 executions under six popes and the French government.”
“Nicknamed Mastro Titta (a colloquial form of maestro di giustizia, “master of justice”), he worked under popes Pius VI, Pius VII, Leo XII, Pius VIII, Gregory XVI, and Pius IX, and also during the French occupation of Rome.”
Wikipedia
An interesting case:
“...the famous case of Gironima Spana in 1659. Spana was a dealer in the deadly poison Aqua Tofana, used by Roman women in unhappy marriages to kill their husbands. Spana consistently refused to admit her guilt, despite the overwhelming material evidence and witnesses arrayed against her. So long as she had not confessed, she could not be executed. It was not until six months of imprisonment when, faced with multiple incriminating statements from her former clients, she signed a long confession, admitting sardonically that “I’ve given this liquid to more people than I have hairs on my head.” (2) Spana and four acquaintances were executed at the Campo de’ Fiori in Rome on July 6, 1659.”
From a good article:
https://unamsanctamcatholicam.com/2023/10/08/capital-punishment-in-the-papal-states/
So it wasn’t barbaric for what he did?
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops that got paid to import millions of Islamofascist terrorists into the United States?
That United States Conference of Catholic Bishops?
In Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame, Archdeacon Claude Frollo allows Esmeralda’s death sentence to proceed.
The countries that are governed by The Religion of Peace execute people in public all the time.
How bad could it be?
It certainly couldn’t be described as Barbaric, that would be Islamophobic.
And that’s what we get for executing a member of a cult of death.
AI:
The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) has officially condemned capital punishment. Through resolutions from its Holy Synod and official teaching guides, the OCA explicitly rejects the practice.
Wikipedia
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Theological Basis: The OCA teaches that the death penalty is incompatible with the Gospel. The New Testament replaces the Old Testament law of retribution with the laws of forgiveness, non-retaliation, and love for one’s enemies.
2. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOA)
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOA) and its hierarchs have consistently aligned with an anti-death penalty position.
Practical and Moral Arguments: Documented perspectives from the GOA outline that capital punishment no longer serves as a legitimate deterrent to crime. The Archdiocese has also pointed out the systemic inequities inherent in the modern justice system, noting that affluent individuals frequently escape execution due to superior legal representation.
3. Global Orthodox Leadership
On the global stage, the spiritual head of Eastern Orthodoxy, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, has formally declared that the death penalty is fundamentally incompatible with Christian beliefs and human dignity. Bartholomew has emphasized that true justice must prioritize rehabilitation and spiritual improvement over state-mandated retribution.
The purpose of livestreaming the execution is not entertainment it to send the message that treason is not going to be tolerated in the US Officer Core.
Those that commit Treason will be executed.
AI:
Dept. of War?
• Renaming to Department of Defense: In 1949, Congress passed amendments to the act that officially renamed the National Military Establishment to the Department of Defense (DoD) and strengthened the authority of the Secretary of Defense over the individual military branches. History.com +1
• Effective Dates: The legislation was signed on July 26, 1947, and took operational effect on September 18, 1947.
Some people just need killin!
Sure worked for the Catholic Church for the last millineum.
Public executions would put a stop to a lot of crime.
Okay, okay. Fine. We’ll do it your way. We’ll burn him at the stake. Or, you don’t happen to have a spare rack or iron maiden laying around anywhere, do you?
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