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The official position of the Catholic Church (The most numerous Christian denomination) is in opposition to the death penalty: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignit...

When Pope Francis addressed the United States Congress, he was chided by many for denouncing the death penalty which took 23 American lives in 2017, while staying silent on abortion, of which 652,639 took place in 2014.

There are certainly churches, typically evangelical, that are rabidly anti-abortion while promoting the death penalty, but it's less common in Catholic communities or even mainline Protestant denominations.




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