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Imprisoned and starved to death on 18 May 526. [4] Pope Martin I (Saint) Elected in 649. Died in exile 16 September 655. ... Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul ...
The Pope was struck twice and suffered severe blood loss. Ağca was apprehended immediately and later sentenced to life in prison by an Italian court. The Pope forgave Ağca for the assassination attempt. [1] He was pardoned by Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi at the Pope's request and was deported to Turkey in June 2000.
Capital punishment in Vatican City was legal between 1929 and 1969, reserved for attempted assassination of the Pope, but has never been applied there. [1] Executions were carried out elsewhere in the Papal States , which was the predecessor of the Vatican City, during their existence.
However, after a failed assassination attempt, he was captured and imprisoned by the Italian police. [1] [2] After being imprisoned for 19 years in Italy where he was visited by the Pope, he was deported to Turkey, where he served a ten-year sentence. Ağca was released from prison on 18 January 2010. [3]
On today's date in 1963, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Texas.
The Warren Commission, set up by President Johnson to investigate the killing, spent a year probing the assassination and in its 889-page final report also concluded that Oswald had acted alone.
He has said he had not hurt the pope. After spending three years in a Lisbon prison, Fernández y Krohn was released in 1985, and deported. [10] As a member of the Roman Catholic Church, the perpetrator, according to Canons 1331 and 1370 § 1 of the Church code, incurred the Church penalty of excommunication.
The assassination of JFK, meanwhile, wasn't just the first presidential assassination of the 20th century—it was also the first killing of a U.S. President that wasn't committed at close range.