20 Years On Death (Life) Row

In this episode, Jay Dan sits down with Pam Perillo Tise to talk about her story. Jay Dan’s mother, Jane, met Pam on death row in 1995. Jane talks about meeting Pam.

Pamela Perillo was set to die on March 24, 1996.

Convicted of capital murder in 1980, Pamela sat on Texas’s Death Row awaiting lethal injection. But less than two days before her scheduled execution, she was given a second chance, and in 2000, she was re-sentenced: from death to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Her first chance at new life had come shortly after her arrest, when Pamela embraced the Christian faith and began bringing her fellow inmates to redemption in Christ.

That’s why although Pamela’s story is one of imprisonment―first by abuse and addiction and ultimately behind the locked doors of the criminal justice system―it’s also a story of hope―of finding a new path in faith, and of taking courage from the promise of salvation.

Pam was released in 2019 and has been enjoying life on this side of prison well. It’s been a learning curve and she talks about that too.