The Telegram That Saved the Condemned
On a bitter January morning in 1830, George Wilson sat in a Philadelphia jail cell awaiting execution for robbery and endangering a mail carrier's life....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Peter 3:18-22.
On a bitter January morning in 1830, George Wilson sat in a Philadelphia jail cell awaiting execution for robbery and endangering a mail carrier's life. His case had wound through every appeal. There was nothing left. Then President Andrew Jackson, moved by petitions from Wilson's friends, issued a full presidential pardon. What happened next stunned the legal world. Wilson refused the pardon.…
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