Sister Helen
Criminal
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The Death of a Teenage Boy
"They're in such trauma and grief and loss i don't blame," she says of the victims' families. "I was going to lose my own life if i let that hatred overtake me." The girl's parents were furious at her when they ran into each other outside a pardon board meeting, but gradually we got to be friends after he visited his daughter-in-law on death row. 'He said sister people think forgiveness is weak like oh you kill my son like you condone in it,' one father told her.
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