I don't think of myself as an activist with regard to capital punishment and the failure of the death penalty as either a deterrent or as a just solution, but whenever I hear any story of any death row inmate - no matter how guilty, no matter the circumstance, I start to feel like an activist.
I watched the documentary At The Death House Door on Saturday (on IFC) and I kept thinking 'this is a Good Friday drama'. The death row inmate, Carlos de Luna, is proclaimed innocent by an overwhelming number of people and yet he's dead, killed by the State of Texas. And it didn't go well. It took 11 minutes.
The man at the center of the documentary though is Carol Pickett, whose death house ministry has turned him into an activist, although he's uncomfortable with that word. He crusades all over Texas against the death penalty.
I want to take this story and use it for Good Friday and Easter. That idea hit me right between the eyes when de Luna asked to call Carol Pickett Daddy. It just jumped out at me - Abba, Father...
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