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How we can consistently be pro-life, pro-death penalty and pro-war?

Just war. Just punishment.

There is no "just" abortion.

Are the right wing Christian conservatives somehow inconsistent in their stance on life by being both pro-life for the unborn yet pro-death penalty when there are those who have been wrongly convicted of murder by our judicial system?

Is it inconsistent to jail people, after all some people have been wrongly convicted?

We strive for excellence, certainly in this country more than in any other. But errors will always happen in human systems. We can wring our hands, or we can do our best to ensure that errors are caught.

No one can honestly state that anyone is executed in this country without going through multiple rings of various jurisdictions and watchdogs. We've had two guys here in PA who killed like 10 people, including some cops in 1981. They are still on the "due process" merry-go-round.

There is little more we can do.

We can wring our hands, or we can do our best to ensure that errors are caught. No one can honestly state that anyone is executed in this country without going through multiple rings of various jurisdictions and watchdogs.

Have we really done our best? I just meant Michael Austin (one of the men listed on the webpage listed above). I would recommend that you read some of the personal stories at the bottom of the page listed above (which you either did not do because you posted your post so quickly or you are a speed reader). They tell the personal stories of those who were on death row and have been released. Or those who have been imprisoned for around 20 years (as was the case with Michael) and now released. Without a ministry like Centurion ministries , the multiple rings of various jurisdictions and watchdogs that you mentioned would have proven pointless at revealing the truth.

(Prepare yourself for a good ole' fashion pentecostal altar call) Close your eyes right now and remeber what you've done for the last twenty years. Had a family? Watched your children grow up? Build a career for yourself? Imagine all of this taken away wrongfully. Now ponder whether some of these people would have been executed if there had been no ministry to work on their behalf. I cannot imagine being held guilty for wrongful murder of an innocent man at the hands of the state. Does this sound like any other figure of sacred history? Have you really done all you can to improve the judicial system? (Altar call is now finished :) )