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Texas Death Row Ministry Highlighted on CNN

By Steve Hall

Jay Kernis reports the regular feature, "Intriguing people for February 26, 2010," on CNN.  One of those profiled is Michael Denson, founder of Catholic Death Row Ministry."Walking the last mile with death row inmates, Michael Denson lives in a state where 87 percent of the residents support the death penalty." So begins Michelle Bearden's remarkable portrait of Denson at the uscatholic.org Web site. The Frisco, Texas, rancher founded the Catholic Death Row Ministry two decades ago, and today he finds himself spending less time with his cattle and more hours with inmates at maximum-security prisons.He told Bearden, "The general attitude is 'Let's kill them, and let's kill them as quick as we can...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 26, 2010 (boomark / email).