Opinion

NY Governor Cuomo: Let’s Abolish The Death Penalty Because The Pope Says So! Um, How About Abortion?

Ben Shapiro

On Thursday evening, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo responded to the Pope’s new position opposing the death penalty. Pope Francis’s new draft of the catechism states, “The Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that ‘the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person,’ and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.” The death penalty is, in other words, obsolete.

In light of this statement, godly St. Cuomo immediately leapt to impose his theocratic views on his state. Here’s what he tweeted:

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