Sentenced to Live: The Bill Davis Story

By Cynthia Blackwell

Two young men's lives hung in the balance.

A young safe cracker faced a 920-year prison sentence.

In the same jail, Charles Manson awaited his own fate.

One would receive a life sentence.

The other would be sentenced to live.

Bill Davis was sitting in a California federal jail cell. His crimes had finally caught up with him.

Angry, reckless, and spiraling toward destruction, he was staring at what should have been the end of his story.

On the way to take his own life, Bill walked into a small coffee house instead.

That decision changed everything.

In a moment that defied explanation, he encountered God. The rage that fueled him broke. The hopelessness that consumed him lifted. Even a life-threatening ulcer that doctors could not heal suddenly disappeared.

Bill and his wife, Darlene Davis, have spent more than five decades carrying a message of hope into prisons, colleges and universities, stadiums, and churches around the world.

Sentenced to Live is more than a prison story. It is a testimony of radical grace, supernatural healing, and a destiny rewritten.

Because no sentence is greater than mercy.

And no life is beyond redemption.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQW7PJNX
• ISBN13: 9798250217040
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"