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Mon 07 Jul 2001Pope condemns Bush over death penaltyPope John Paul II has condemned US President George W. Bush today for his support for the death penalty."A free and virtuous society, which America aspires to be, must reject practices that devalue and violate human life at any stage from conception until natural death," the Pontiff told the president, who was visiting Rome.