The Speed Driven Life

Remember that hour-long special on CNN about Rick Warren, whose book, The Purpose Driven Life, was credited as enabling Ashley Smith to convince the Atlanta courthouse killer to surrender? Will CNN now retract the story and give Smith's crank dealer an hour to promote his stimulant of the masses?

Ashley Smith, the woman who says she persuaded suspected courthouse gunman Brian Nichols to release her by talking about her faith, discloses in a new book that she gave him methamphetamine during the hostage ordeal.

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In her book, "Unlikely Angel," released Tuesday, Smith says Nichols had her bound on her bed with masking tape and an extension cord. She says he asked for marijuana, but she did not have any, and she dug into her illegal stash of crystal meth.

I always wondered about that up at 2 a.m. to buy some smokes story.

Smith insists her ordeal was a miracle, with God giving her "one more chance." Modesty prevented Smith from saying that the killer's four victims didn't deserve another chance.