Execution Stayed For Prisoner Who Leads Death Row Ministry

Every morning, Will Speer leads prayer and worship in his state prison. He is the first death row prisoner to help lead a death row ministry in Texas’s Allan B. Polunsky Unit. Speer was scheduled to be executed on Oct. 26 — but less than five hours before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed his death pending further review of his case, Christianity Today reported. ...Speer, 49, is known for ministering to his inmates, sometimes delivering a sermon through prison radio, or leading worship, pastor Dana Moore told CT. Moore has spent years ministering to those on death row in the Polunsky Unit.