Death on Hold: A Prisoner's Desperate Prayer and the Unlikely Family Who Became God's Answer
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Death on Hold: A Prisoner's Desperate Prayer and the Unlikely Family Who Became God's Answer
By (Author) Burton W. Folsom
By (author) Anita Folsom
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Thomas Nelson Publishers
23rd November 2015
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
248.4092
Physical Properties
Hardback
272
Width 150mm, Height 222mm, Spine 27mm
362g
Description
In January 1983 Burt Folsom read a story in Timeabout Mitch Rutledge, a man on death row with an IQ of 84 who said he was sorry for what he did. "Forget him," the last line of the story read. But Burt wrote Mitch a letter and discovered a man more interesting and intelligent than the article revealed.
Burt and his wife, Anita, began a friendship with Mitch and saw him become a leader and role model for others in prison, teaching himself to read and write (starting with copying down the spelling of items he knew from TV commercials) and becoming a national spokesman on prison life.
Death on Holdis the amazing story of their friendship, and of grace, reconciliation, and redemption for a man without hope who was given a future.
