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Murdered popes. John VIII (872–882), poisoned and then clubbed to death [10] Stephen VI (896–897), strangled [11] Leo V (903), allegedly strangled [12] John X (914–928), allegedly smothered with a pillow [13] John XII (955–964), allegedly murdered by the jealous husband of the woman with whom he was in bed [14]
Pasquale Rastelli, hanged and quartered in Amelia (May 20, 1806), convicted of robbery and murder. Tommaso Rotiliesi, hanged at the Ponte Sant'Angelo, (June 9, 1806), convicted for slightly wounding a French officer. Bernardino Salvati, hanged in Rieti (July 12, 1806), convicted of the murder of one of his companions.
Vatican City portal. Catholicism portal. v. t. e. 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.
The position of the Catholic Church on capital punishment has varied throughout history, with the Church becoming significantly more critical of the practice since the early to mid-20th century. [1][2][3] In 2018, the Catechism of the Catholic Church was revised to read that "in the light of the Gospel " the death penalty is "inadmissible ...
King Afonso II of Portugal, excommunicated in 1212 by Pope Honorius III for weakening the clergy and investing part of the large sums destined to the Catholic Church in the unification of the country. Afonso II promised to reconcile with the Church, however, he died in 1223 without making any serious attempt to do so.
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (1581) – executed on the Scottish maiden for complicity in murder of Lord Darnley. William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie (1584) – executed by order of James VI of Scotland. John Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell (1613) – beheaded in Edinburgh for carrying out a revenge killing.
Mehmet Ali Ağca. The location of the shooting, marked by a stone tablet, in St. Peter's Square. On 13 May 1981, in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca while he was entering the square. The Pope was struck twice and suffered severe blood loss.
Jean-Paul Laurens, Le Pape Formose et Étienne VI ("Pope Formosus and Stephen VI"), 1870. The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial; Latin: Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, who had been dead for about seven months, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January 897. [1]