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Were any Catholic Popes murdered?

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Yes many catholic popes were murdered. Here is the list:

Stephen VI (896-897) - Strangled
Stephen VII/(IX) (939-942) - Mutilated
John XII (955-964) - Murdered by cuckolded husband
Benedict VI (973-974) - Strangled
John XIV (983-984) - Either by starvation, ill-treatment or direct murder
Gregory V (996-999) - Poisoned
Boniface VIII (1294-1303) - Death possibly (though unlikely) from the effects of ill-treatment one month before
John VIII b - Allegedly poisoned and then clubbed to death
Adrian III (884-885)- Allegedly poisoned
Leo V (903) - Allegedly strangled
John X (914-928) - Allegedly smothered with pillow
Stephen VII/(VIII) (928-931) - Allegedly murdered
Sergius IV (1009-1012) - Allegedly murdered
Clement II (1046-1047) - Allegedly poisoned
Damasus II (1048) - Allegedly murdered
Benedict XI (1304-1305) - Allegedly poisoned; no evidence provided
John Paul I (1978) - Surprising death just 33 days after Papal election prompted scrutiny and birthed a myriad of conspiracies theories; no evidence provided

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