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Some find redemption on death row, but few find mercy

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imageGerman Theologian Jürgen Moltmann at the graduation of condemned Georgia inmate Kelly Gissendaner. She was executed in September 2015. Emory University, Author provided

Strapped to the execution gurney in Huntsville, Texas, Michael Hall told those assembled to watch him die that he was not the same man who had shot a 19-year-old woman to death...

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