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Mark Osler on Capital Punishment

By Steve Hall

"Jesus Christ, Capital Defendant," is the title of his latest essay on Huffington Post.  Osler is a professor at Baylor Law and a former prosecutor.In the Fall of 2000, I moved from Detroit to Waco, Texas, leaving a job as a federal prosecutor to teach at Baylor Law School. There were many changes to adjust to -- including the highly Christianized political culture in Texas and the fervent support for the death penalty that has made Texas the centerpiece for capital punishment in the Western world.One day, sitting in church and preparing for communion, the juxtaposition of these two Texan mindsets became clear in my head -- the same Texas that held firm for the death penalty also was dominated by a faith that had at its center a wrongful execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 26, 2010 (boomark / email).