Pope says death penalty ‘inadmissible’ as US plans to livestream execution

Pope Leo XIV declared the death penalty ‘inadmissible’ in response to the US plans to livestream an execution by firing squad. He reiterated the Catholic Church’s teaching that capital punishment attacks human dignity. His comments came days after US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be livestreamed.