| 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."e,Forget him,"e, 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. |
