ID3 vTOPE NPRTCOM TALB Morning EditionTIT2 0 Murderer Reaps Benefits of Religious ConversionTCOP 2006TRCK 3TCON COMM Y nprComment Darrell Mease, a convicted murderer, was scheduled to die in Missouri when his prayers were answered. Pope John Paul II won Mease, a Christian convert, a commutation of his death sentence during a 1998 Missouri visit. Steve Inskeep talks to author Michael Cuneo about his book Almost Midnight, which chronicles Mease's case.TPE1 NPRTYER 2006 P , mw% @8 bX)`ZtPa. NZ O