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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 :) )

Have we really done our best?

I like to think so. Obviously there are venal people and honest mistakes made. Don't take me wrong, I think agitating for the truth is good.

It's just gotten such a bad name cause of the Mumia-ites who won't accept reality and the idiots who think we should have racial quotas on jurisrudence.

I would be suspicious, is all I am saying.

(Prepare yourself for a good ole' fashion pentecostal altar call)

Yes, I recognize that errors and deliberate miscarriages of justice are bad for the person who is the victim.

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?

#1, I didn't say the ministry was a bad idea, just that the death penalty is a just punishment. And that wringing our hands overs errors can only lead to paralysis. Which is, of course, the goal.

#2, I am not "guilty" for the actions of anyone else. If mistakes were made, there is no guilt for anyone. If corruption is evident, it is the corrupt who are responsible, not me.

#3, using Jesus is a poor example, and in poor taste. Perhaps some would rather that Jesus were rescued from His unjust sentence, but I am not among them.