Cardinal Godfried Danneels said he supported capital...

Cardinal Godfried Danneels said he supported capital punishment in theory but was opposed to it in practice, Belgian television reported. The Belgian cardinal argued during a television debate that the "legal notion" of the death penalty should be upheld for the most serious crimes. "Pronouncing death penalty is symbolically important, but I naturally cannot agree to them being carried out," Danneels, 70, said during the debate. "You remove the meaning of somebody's life. He is made an outcast" by a death sentence, the cardinal said when asked to clarify his remarks.