The Murderer Who Met Grace on Death Row

In 1918, Tokichi Ishii sat in a Tokyo prison cell awaiting execution. He had killed multiple people without remorse, and guards called him the most dangerous man in Japan. Two Canadian missionaries, unable to reach him through conversation, simply left a New Testament in his cell. Ishii ignored it for weeks. Then boredom drove him to its pages. He read without interest until he reached Luke's account of the crucifixion.…