text: The Catholic Church is certainly against Capital Punishment and torture, but it never declared it to be intrinsically evil.  The Church declares, in the Catechism, that direct abortion is.  On can argue for exceptional cases of Capital Punishment, but not for abortion....the taking of innocent life.
  Read your Catechism and Canon Law which excommunicates those obtaining or directly involved in abortion.  It does not do so for Capital Punishment, even though it should not be used.