CNA Staff, Aug 4, 2020 / 13:35 pm
After President Donald Trump said Sunday that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, perpetrator of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, should be put to death, the Archdiocese of Boston said justice calls for life in prison, not the death penalty.
"Catholic teaching does not support the taking of life as a means of achieving justice," in Tsarnaev's case, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Boston said.
"The incomprehensible suffering of so many caused by this heinous crime should appropriately be met with a sentence of imprisonment for life with no possibility of parole," Terrence Donilon, a spokesman for the Boston archdiocese, told CNA Tuesday.
Donilon also acknowledged that the ongoing Tsarnaev appeal "has brought considerable further pain to the families and loved ones of those lost in the Marathon bombing and all the victims of that deliberate attack on innocent people."