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Two new books examine capital punishment from two very different perspectives.  In today's Austin American-Statesman, staff writer Patrick Beach reviews Baylor Law prof Mark Osler's, Jesus on Death Row: The Trial of Jesus and American Capital Punishment.Beach's review is, "Faith and the system: Law prof troubled by Christian's support for ultimate punisment."  Here's an extended excerpt:A majority of Texans profess to love Jesus, or at least identify themselves as Christian. A majority of Texans also love the death penalty. And that got Mark Osler thinking. Osler, a former federal prosecutor in Detroit, moved to Waco to teach law at Baylor University in 2001 and found it to be a garden of intellectual delights, a place where he could "reflect on the big issues that I was not focusing on when I was prosecuting cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).