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A Chaplain's Take on Capital Punishment

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That's the title of Bob Lively's religion column which will appear in tomorrow's Austin American-Statesman.  LINKThe last time I checked, seven out of 10 Texans approved of the death penalty, and not surprisingly, Texas executes more people than any other state (and for that matter, most foreign countries). Hence, it should surprise no one that our current governor has sat by while 200 fellow human beings have been executed over in Huntsville. If he commuted death sentences, he'd never be re-elected. But I wonder about those pro-death penalty Texans. Don't they know that Jesus was a victim of the same state-sanctioned murder to which we've become so tragically inured here in the Lone Star State? The Jewish Sanhedrin did not kill Jesus...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 26, 2009 (boomark / email).