“It will never go away,” he said.
Closure, a word as easy to say as it is difficult to realize, is not something Ms. Harris is expecting. She did not find it when she attended the execution of Mr. Brewer, who, after a last meal so plentiful that it put an end to last meal requests in Texas, made no statement of remorse, even telling a journalist beforehand that he would “do it all over again.”
The execution “doesn’t change the fact that hate still exists in society,” Ms. Harris said.
It would not give the last 21 years back to Mr. Byrd, she said. It would not take away the 21 years Mr. King was “still alive and breathing,” corresponding with fans and pushing appeals in court.
“It’s not completely healing,” she said. “It’s just finding justice.”
Another sister of Mr. Byrd’s, Betty Boatner, who still lives in Jasper and takes care of their aging father, had no plans to attend the execution, as she had not attended the last one. For one thing, she had a sore throat, she said, and needed to rest.
“I really haven’t sat and thought about it, how it would make me feel,” she said on Tuesday morning. She had forgiven her brother’s killers a long time ago, she said. It still hurts, of course. And she did not object to the execution on Wednesday. It is what the jury decided, and that is the law. But what the justice system decides and what she seeks, these are two separate things.
“I’ve been moving on by the grace of God, and whatever the state says that he deserves, the state has a right to make that decision,” she said. “It is what it is.”
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