FORGIVENESS FOR A MURDER
Karla Faye Tucker was executed on February 3, 1998 for a pickax murder. One of the ones that lost a sister to her tells this story: “When I got to the prison, I walked up to her and told her that I was Deborah’s brother. I didn’t say anything else at first. She looked at me and said, “You are who?” I repeated myself, and she still stared, like she just couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Then she began to cry. I said, “Karla, whatever comes out of all this, I want you to know that I forgive you, and that I don’t hold anything against you.” At that point all my hatred and anger was taken away. It was like some great weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Ron, the brother, said he continued talking to Karla and found that she too had recently come to believe in God, and that her faith had changed her…
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