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How many people in prison are actually innocent?   Depends on which reasearcher you ask.   Some say that there error rate is around 13 percent  in murder convictions.  The most hopeful estimate is that 99.5 percent of convictions are accurate.  Even if that is true that still means almost 8,000 innocent people are imprisoned each year.…

There is no proof that we have executed an innocent man or woman.  Though if you ask sister Helen Prejean she thinks that it has already occurred.  In her book, “The Death of Innocents:  An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions,” she outlines two cases, one of “an indigent black man with an IQ of 65,…

It’s almost normal for us to hear the story of a wrongfully convicted person going free after years in prison. The latest? Cornelius Dupree Jr. who was declared innocent after serving 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.  Dupree, now 51 said, “Whatever your truth is, you have to stick with…

Living in the Mile High City the Tim Tebow bandwagon has arrived and the line is forming.  There are hopes that he’s the next John Elway who will lead us to the promised land.  Before he even took a snap in the NFL Christians were already celebrating him.  After all, Tebow recognizes that God has…
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