BigShot:

There have been 213 post-conviction DNA exonerations in United States history. These stories are becoming more familiar as more innocent people gain their freedom through postconviction testing. They are not proof, however, that our system is righting itself.

BigShot, did they explain in the documents you found why these exonerations are not proof of the system working? Is it because the Innocence Project had to intervene in order to make the system do what it wasn't doing by itself?

I find the arguments against the death penalty so far interesting, albeit not quite on point. Since no one's spoken up for the other side, I did find one in prodeathpenalty.com. They have a long paper on the benefits including a section addressing xianity in particular. They offer arguments from Jesus accepting the death penalty on the cross to the OT old standards to calling Pope John Paul II wrong for his Evangelium Vitae.

I'm still interested in how the religious reconcile this issue, though I would not be surprised to see stuff from this pro-death penalty paper employed. Perhaps konark can offer her angle as well, though we have no one to speak of Islam that I know of.