- 272 pages
- English
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Death on Hold
About this book
In January 1983 Burt Folsom read a story in Time about 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 Hold is the amazing story of their friendship, and of grace, reconciliation, and redemption for a man without hope who was given a future.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- AUTHORS’ NOTE
- 1. THIS IS MY STORY
- 2. TRAGEDY
- 3. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
- 4. RUNAWAYS
- 5. DRUGS
- 6. JOB CORPS TO PRISON
- 7. CHAIN GANG TO PAROLE
- 8. HALFWAY HOUSE
- 9. I KILL A MAN
- 10. JANUARY 6, 1981
- 11. I MEET GOD
- 12. AN ANSWERED PRAYER—A LAWYER
- 13. THE FIRST TRIAL
- 14. HOLMAN PRISON
- 15. I MEET SWAMP BEAR
- 16. DEATH ROW
- 17. LEARNING TO READ
- 18. TIME INTERVIEW
- 19. NEW FRIENDS—AT LAST!
- 20. JOHN LOUIS EVANS III
- 21. GETTING TO KNOW MY NEW FRIENDS
- 22. ANOTHER CHANCE
- 23. PRISON POLITICS
- 24. 1985 SENTENCING HEARING
- 25. BACK IN HOLMAN ON DEATH ROW
- 26. VISITING MITCH
- 27. SERENGETI PLAINS
- 28. NEW FRIENDS
- 29. ONE LAST TRY TO ESCAPE EXECUTION
- 30. MITCH’S LAST CHANCE
- 31. THE JURY’S VERDICT
- 32. SEG AND POP
- 33. A PRISON MURDER
- 34. THREE PRISON VICES
- 35. GED
- 36. MIND GAMES
- 37. PRISON CULTURE
- 38. COLLEGE
- 39. SICKNESS
- 40. SORRY, CHARLIE
- 41. HONOR DORM
- 42. PRISON REFORMS
- 43. CLARENCE THOMAS
- 44. PRISON INCENTIVES
- 45. NO REHABILITATION
- 46. LEADERSHIP IN THE HONOR DORM
- 47. BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ
- 48. BURT’S STORY
- 49. I DO A VIDEO
- 50. SPEAKING TO AT-RISK YOUTHS
- 51. TEACHER
- 52. I SAVE A LIFE
- 53. FINAL CHAPTER: WHAT I HAVE LEARNED
- EPILOGUE: BURT AND ANITA FOLSOM
- NOTES
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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