Lessons from the Row

Andy Godby was chaplain at Sussex 1 State Prison in 1998 and 1999 where he witnessed a total of 27 executions. In 1997, he earned a master's degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and gained his experience as a prison chaplain. At seminary the fundamentalist movement was coming on strong. Andy's long hair, Harley Davidson motorcycle and bold approach to life just did not blend with this movement. Behind the bars and razor wire of Luther Luckett and Sussex I prisons, he found friendship, men that he respected and learned about life from men who had their's taken from them. Originally from Earlham, Iowa, Andy was raised in a farming community Present day, he lives with his wife of 23 years in Arizona, where he is a truck driver. He also has two grown children, Amy and Joshua.