Today on Texas Standard: ‘Redemption’ Explores Faith and Sisterhood on Texas Death Row

Today on Texas Standard: ‘Redemption’ explores faith and sisterhood on Texas death row

In “Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright follows cloistered Catholic nuns who formed relationships with women awaiting execution in Texas. Their story raises...

Review: Texas women on death row walk the road to ‘Redemption’ with a community of nuns

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright's new book, 'Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row,' offers "an appeal to conscience" for seven women inmates on death row in Texas.

‘Richly observed’ profiles on death row

by Lawrence Wright. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, Wright profiles seven women facing execution in Texas and the nuns praying for their souls. The Sisters of Mary Morningstar, who live outside Waco, are solitary and mostly silent, but they provide the condemned inmates with “mercy, love, and grace,” Wright writes. Each person is “richly observed and beautifully rendered,” The Boston Globe says, adding that it’s a “thoughtful book th…

‘It speaks very poorly of us as a society’: Lawrence Wright on his book on death row and redemption

The Pulitzer prize-winning writer’s new book looks at the women on death row in Texas and the nuns who have been trying to help them It is “stunning”, the Pulitzer-winning reporter Lawrence...

Redemption by Lawrence Wright: Review

In Redemption, revered journalist Lawrence Wright spotlights the relationships among isolationist nuns and the women on Texas’ death row.