Never Give Up! (en Inglés) - Joshua A. Wolf

What happens when friendship is born in one of the darkest places imaginable-and one friend is sentenced to death?

Inside the walls of Potosi Correctional Center in Missouri, Joshua A. Wolf crossed paths with Lance Shockley, a father living on death row. What began as an unexpected friendship became a bond built on faith, laughter, family, grief, and an unwavering determination to never give up.

In Never Give Up, Joshua takes readers inside the world of a maximum-security prison and into the final chapter of Lance Shockley's life. He tells the deeply personal story of two men who found friendship in a place designed to separate people from the outside world-and of a man whose faith remained steadfast as the date of his execution approached.

Lance was a father who continued loving and encouraging his family from behind prison walls. He was a friend, teacher, servant, and man of deep Christian faith. Even as his world grew smaller, he continued reaching toward others with hope.

But this is also a story about the death penalty and the human beings caught within it.

Joshua examines the case that sent Lance to death row, including the circumstantial evidence, disputed testimony, and questions surrounding the trial and appeals. The book follows the final days of Lance's legal fight, the efforts of his family and supporters, the clemency campaign, and the thousands of people who called on Missouri to spare his life.

Then comes the moment no family is prepared to face.

Through the eyes of those who loved Lance-and through Joshua's own experiences-the reader is brought into the grief, helplessness, faith, and heartbreak surrounding an execution. Behind the glass of the execution chamber are families, friends, witnesses, and a human being whose life is coming to an end.

Yet Never Give Up is not simply a book about prison or the death penalty.

It is a story about love that refuses to disappear, faith that refuses to surrender, and friendship that survives even death.

Lance asked Joshua to tell their story-to tell the world about their friendship and the love of God he had experienced in one of the most unlikely places imaginable.

Joshua made him a promise.

This book is that promise kept.

Rooted in Scripture and shaped by loss, Never Give Up asks difficult questions about justice, mercy, punishment, and human dignity while offering something even more enduring: hope.

When everything appears lost, what does it mean to keep believing?

When the prison doors close, can love still reach through?

And when death seems to have the final word, is there a hope that goes beyond the grave?

Never Give Up is a heartbreaking and deeply personal memoir about a father, a friend, a prison, a death sentence, and the faith of a man who refused to surrender his hope.

Lance never gave up. Now Joshua is sharing why.