In his memoir The Church and I, the Catholic apologist Frank Sheed recalled his part in an unusual conversion story.
A murderer on death row had asked to become a Catholic. Since time was short, the chaplain gave him a copy of Sheed’s A Map of Life, a brisk explanation of God, the Church, sin, redemption and the afterlife. Sheed relates: “The man was baptised, made his first Communion. Then he was told that if he applied for a reprieve he would probably get it. He refused, saying, ‘If that book is true, I’m going.’ And he went.”
