The death penalty affirms the sanctity of innocent lives.
Pope Francis is a dissident of the teachings and Magisterium of the Church. His first step as Pope was to legitimize the Marxist liberation theology, a perversion of the Gospels proscribed by His Holiness John Paul II, and Pope Benedict XVI following the precedent s of repudiation of that diabolical ideology set by all the Popes since the end of the XIX century.
The position of the Church on the death penalty is also clear including the legitimization of the tyrannicide. St. Thomas Aquinas gave the most substantial argument for tyrannicide. He based his position on his arguments for just war and capital punishment. St. Thomas concluded, "He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded" (In 2 Sentences, 44.2.2).
Certainly, a Pope that gave moral support for president Obama to keep a float the Cuban tyrants would not “praise and reward” a patriot who would ultimate the genocides of the Cuban people.
To delve deeper on this matter:
Does the Church Condone Tyrannicide?
FR. WILLIAM SAUNDERS
http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/does-the-church-condone-tyrannicide.html