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Personal Journeys: Forgiven

Photos: Billy Neal Moore spent 16 years on death row for killing a man. Today, he is an ordained minister who speaks to inmates about an act of forgiveness that saved his life.

Billy Moore talks to inmates at the Floyd County Prison in Rome during a three-day revival in January. Moore spent 16 1/2 years on death row for killing a 77-year-old man during a burglary in Wrens. Now he speaks to inmates about the power of forgiveness.

This is Moore's mugshot, taken July 31, 1980. He was later released in 1990.

Moore greets inmates after talking to them at the Floyd County Prison.

Louise McCluskey (left), Moore and Roger Covington dance to praise music during the revival at the Floyd County Prison.

Bishop Nealon Guthrie (right) visited Moore in prison a week before his execution date and baptized him in a bathtub while two trustee inmates served as witnesses. Guthrie remains a mentor and close friend to Moore, pictured here with his wife, Donna Jacks-Moore.

Moore travels the world speaking at churches, colleges and prisons about faith and forgiveness.

The knocker on the front door of Moore's Rome home quotes Joshua 24:15.

Guthrie talks about how he met Moore in jail and baptized him.

Jacks-Moore talks about her husband during an interview at their home.

Guthrie, Donna Jacks-Moore and Moore at the Moore's home in Rome.

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Billy Moore talks to inmates at the Floyd County Prison in Rome during a three-day revival in January. Moore spent 16 1/2 years on death row for killing a 77-year-old man during a burglary in Wrens. Now he speaks to inmates about the power of forgiveness.

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