Call to Conversion, to Compassion Introduction Despite the global consensus against the death penalty, with over 70% of nations abolishing it either in law or practice, the United States is a stark outlier.  It remains the only developed country in the Western Hemisphere that continues to execute its own citizens, perpetuating a profoundly flawed notion of ‘justice.”   And so we pray for the end of the death penalty, especially in our own country.   May we love as our God of