CATHOLIC leaders in Mexico are urging politicians to dismiss calls for the death penalty.
Several church figures, including Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City, encouraged people to participate in a march aimed at pressuring the government to crack down on rampant crime.
But the prominence of banners asking authorities to execute kidnappers and other serious crime offenders led church officials nationwide to publicly decry such proposals.
“We need to look for solutions other than the death penalty, which could be life sentences or longer sentences,” said Auxiliary Bishop Rafael Martinez Sainz of Guadalajara.