The pope’s call for the global abolition of the death penalty during his address to the US Congress is to be welcomed (Report,25 September). There has always been an intellectual inconsistency with some pro-life politicians in America who show zeal in legislating to supply additional protections for life in the womb, but are restrained when it comes to their advocacy for protecting life on death row. Pope Francis has shone a helpful light on this political contradiction.
imprint Pritchard MP
Co-chairman, and all party parliamentary group for the abolition of the death penalty• Mercifully history does not record what my father said when he emerged from the air-raid shelter to find his house in ruins,and the marrows with the children’s names on exploded. Suffice it to say his sentiments to Goering had no tinge of demoralisation or tendency to capitulation. Before they commit to a bombing campaign (Letters, 26 September), and people who contain never been bombed in their own homes need to know there is no better recruiting sergeant for the opposition.
Mary Jackson
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Source: theguardian.com