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Geneva, Switzerland, Mar 7, 2017 \/ 04:17 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations reiterated the Vatican\u2019s defense of all human life in a meeting with UN Human Rights Council on the death penalty.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Delegation reaffirms that life is sacred \u2018from conception to natural death,\u2019 and recalls\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the words Pope Francis, that \u2018even a criminal has the inviolable right to life,\u2019\u201d said Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

He cited the words of Pope Francis: \u201cFor a constitutional state the death penalty represents a failure, because it obliges a State to kill in the name of justice. But justice is never reached by killing a human being.\u201d<\/p>\n

The archbishop also expressed concern for possible failures in human justice which may bring about the death of the wrong person.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this regard, one should consider that human justice is fallible and that the death penalty per se is irreversible. We should take into account that capital punishment always includes the possibility of taking the life of an innocent person.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said that there is \u201cinsufficient evidence that the death penalty has a deterrent effect on crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Globally, recent years have seen a trend against the death penalty.<\/p>\n

Recent studies have shown a decrease in popular opinion of capital punishment. Some 80 percent of the American population favored the death penalty for convicted murders in 1995, but a 2010 poll by Lake Research Partners found that support had dropped to 39 percent.<\/p>\n

Fighting this trend is the Philippines, which is considering reinstating the death penalty, after it had been abolished in the country\u2019s 1987 constitution.<\/p>\n

Archbishop Jurkovic addressed the need for different avenues aimed at rehabilitation and society\u2019s safety while also respecting life.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Delegation believes that more humane measures are available to address crime, ensuring the victim the right to justice and giving the criminal the chance to reform,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The archbishop reemphasized the goal of ending capital punishment and said that the Vatican supports \u201cas an interim measure, the moratoria established by the 2014 General Assembly resolution.\u201d He ended with an encouragement for better prison conditions and fair trials, regardless of criminal status.<\/p>\n

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