Light from the darkness

Jan Arriens reflects on the life and death of a friend

'...a light in the darkness' | Photo: Premnath Thirumalaisamy / flickr CC.

Michael Lambrix was executed by the state of Florida on 5 October. He had been on death row for thirty-three years. He and I had corresponded for twenty-six of those years. Only a handful of people in all human history have spent longer under sentence of death before execution than Mike.

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