A lot of celebrity friends do not grant, or equate to, redemption. Only one place can grant that - and he's about to face the truth. Whatever it may hold for him.
UPDATE/CLARIFICATION: Before everyone jumps all over me, I have extremely mixed feelings about this whole thing. But, in the end, I don't think the support of celebrities or people in high places should influence this type of decision (regardless of how I feel about its premise to begin with). Other death row prisoners have certainly gone to their fates as redeemed people with less attention. I believe they made a movie about it? (fictionalized of course). And as much as I dislike Gov. Schwarzenegger, I would not wish the burden of his decision as to whether someone lives or dies, on my worst enemy.