In Gideon Magazine, Autum 1995, was the following article about Lester Ezzell on death row in Florida. He was visited by his Sunday School teacher, Curtis Oakes. He had a real burden for Lester. With great difficulty he visited him in prison. Lester greeted him with the words: “You don’t give up do you? You have to my home. Now here you are, 750 miles from home.” Still Lester didn’t want to listen.
Curtis left a New Testament Bible with Lester. Some time later Lester wrote to Curtis about his conversion. In a final letter that he wrote to Curtis Oakes he said: “ By the time you receive this letter, my life will have been taken. I will have paid my dept to society for the wrong I have done. But I want you to know this, with that little Testament and the grace of God, I have led 47 people to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ – one of them the newspaper reporter who came to interview me. I thank you for not giving up on me.”
