Mark Osler, a Baylor University School of Law professor who teaches criminal law, has written a book that raises questions about capital punishment in the United States by comparing the American system to Jesus’ trial and death. Abingdon Press published Osler’s “Jesus on Death Row: The Trial of Jesus and American Capital Punishment” in February. “It was an amazing experience to write it,” Osler says. The former assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan in Detroit says the genesis for his book came in 2001 when he was involved in a mock trial of Jesus’ capital case at the Seventh & James Baptist Church in Waco. “It was a hung jury,” Osler recalls.
-- Mary Alice Robbins
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