..except in the United States where it is maybe the end of a twenty year sentence spent in jail, not used for political purposes, and as often as not, overturned for one reason or another, with plenty of time for repentance.
Then again, I sincerely think that the Pope wasn’t talking about the US death sentences.
The Pope is a leftist agitator. Eliminating the death penalty in the States has been a leftist cause.
He is talking about the States.