Bloodless Means: Capital Punishment, Public Safety, and the Pope
Darrell Mease is a convicted murderer. After confessing to the 1988 shotgun murders of a married couple and their 19-year-old handicapped grandson, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die for his crime. Two weeks prior to Mease’s execution date of 10 February 1999, Pope John Paul II traveled to St. Louis. In a homily … Read more