Texas Observer on Nostr: Texas was the first state to create a religious fellowship program for inmates on ...

Texas was the first state to create a religious fellowship program for inmates on death row but, even so, the Board of Pardons and Paroles rarely considers spiritual growth in bids for clemency.

Now as Will Speer's execution date looms, Staff Writer Michelle Pitcher reports that the question has to be asked again: can personal and religious transformation earn someone a second chance at life? https://www.texasobserver.org/religious-clemency-death-row-inmates/

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