The Word Among Us

August 2004 Issue

The Body of Christ

Even in prison, the Eucharist opens us to another time and another place.

Grinding. Reverberating. Numbing. Metal against metal punctuates my twenty-minute sojourn into the depths of the prison. Ten massive steel-barred doors now separate me from the prison entrance. One more security door stands between death row and me. The officer with the key swings it open. He nods. I step through.

This is the overflow death row wing. Most of Florida’s death row inmates are across the New River in a separate building. The heavy...

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