Sorry if posted already, but seemed really relevant with everything going on. Vatican changed stance on the death penalty, saying that:

“Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes,” it says, adding: “more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption.”

Sounds like some people know they will be swinging from a rope until they are dead and are trying to get ahead of it using religion. God's love to each of you.

THAUCE (among many)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-deathpenalty/vatican-changes-teaching-to-oppose-death-penalty-in-all-cases-idUSKBN1KN1EQ