Pope Leo XIV condemned capital punishment hours after the Justice Department announced a sweeping expansion of federal execution methods, including firing squads. In a video message, the U.S.-born pontiff reiterated the Catholic Church's teaching that the death penalty is "inadmissible." His remarks came as the Trump administration pushed to broaden execution methods for federal inmates. The first American-born pontiff said, "The right to life is the very foundation of every other human right.