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Ministering to Women on Alabama's Death Row

By Steve Hall

"Minister urges women on death row to consider higher judgment," is the title of a lengthy report in today's Montgomery Advertiser.  It's written by Kym Klass. The message that Alicia Smallwood-Brown works to pass on to the five women she ministers to on death row at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women is one that makes them feel inclusive:We will all die for our sins.The difference is in how we die.The women that Brown ministers to at Tutwiler are in lock-up for 23 hours a day because their crimes were so bad that the courts believed they should die for them. While this is mankind's judgment, the women need to consider a higher one, Brown tells them."I tell them we are all on death row ... everyone has to die," she said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 21, 2010 (boomark / email).