Every Sunday, Our American Stories host Lee Habeeb speaks with Mitchel "Big Mitch" Rutledge, who has spent more than forty years serving a life sentence in Alabama. Each call traces the shape of faith, regret, and forgiveness inside a place built for punishment.
Before Mitch ever picked up a Bible, he was a young man trying to survive the chaos of his own choices. A bad deal nearly cost him his life and set off the chain of events that would end in a murder charge and the threat of execution. While waiting for trial, he saw another man in danger and chose to step in. That man introduced Mitch to faith and to the Bible, which became his anchor in the years that followed. From that cell on death row, Mitch tells us how he came to understand what redemption looked like.