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Show Aya ___ The Salt Lake Tribune PAPAL VISIT Thursday, January 28, 1999 John Paul Urges America To End Executions @ Continued from A-1 sign of hope.” He repeated his Christmas Dayappeal for a “‘consensus”’ among world leaders to end the practice. Catholic teaching once held that nations have the “right and duty” to punish criminals with “penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime, not excluding, in cases of extreme gravi- ty, the death penalty.” But in the 1995 encyclical The Gospel of Life, John Paulall but closed any loophole. Modern meansof punishing and preventing crime, he wrote, have madecasesthat justify the death penalty “‘very rare, if notpractically nonexistent.”” John Paul has messaged U.S. governors more than a dozen times asking clemency for death- row inmates; each time he has been turned down. But in apparent deference to his visit, Missouri's Supreme Court last month postponed the has been on death row for nine years for the 1988 slaying of a but spread them to others. About 74,000 worshippers couple and their grandson in a dispute over narcotics. hear the yellow-robed pope say Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls called the court’s move of the ion filled the Trans World Dome to Massin the end zonebeneath a 45- foot-high aluminum replica ofSt. Louis’ famed Gateway Arch. Tumultuous cheering greeted his popemobile as it entered the sports arena after passing through five adjacent exhibition halls of the America’s Center complex. An additional 26,000 peoplein thosehalls followed the Mass ongiant video screens, orga- nizers said, billingit as the largest indoor gathering ever held in the United States. date to Feb. 10 ‘a mockery.” “What do you do?”he asked. “First you are going to kill him, but then you give him a Valium and say, ‘Wait.’ And thenafter the pope is gone, you kill afterward. No! Wheneverheis executed, the state must know that whatit is doing is morally wrong.” execution of Darrell Mease, who was to have died by lethal injec- John Paul told audiences here tion Tuesday, the day of the pope’s arrival here. Mease, 52, and in Mexico that they must not only heed the church’s teachings In preachingspiritual renewal, AIR DUCT CLEANING | Moneoe About Ericsson688 orSiemens S12 List Price $69.95 Yours Absolutely 1 120Day Contract Required NT= - $159.95 We’re Utah’s Largest Air Duct een cat Duct Pros 355-8719 Pema ENTIRE STOCK WOMEN’S BOOTS APUyaydse LIFESTRIDE® GLACEE’ NDMd etal MOUNTAIN: NICOLE’ LyASS SPORTO’ BORN’ AEROSOLES’ St Selection var byst ry, We ited t tock on hand. Basic, anno! accept phone “mail A)Atenty OTRi NINE WEST CARESSA’ IZ CLAIBORNE’ BRIOSO non soasonal merchandise mi BANDOLINO’ ENZO nS ADIDAS: is not in tuded. Shop Monday-Saturday 10-9 and Sunday 12-6 atall Dillard's locations in Salt Lake City: Fashion Place and South Towne Center. In Ogden: Newgate Mall. We wolcome your Dillard's Crodit ( ard, The American Expres: Card, Diners Club Internat ai, Mastorcard? Visa® and The Discover Card ‘ | | |
