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He was charming, intelligent and interesting.
In the hour I spent in Bart Whitaker’s company, I couldn’t help but find him likeable. And that made me extremely uncomfortable. Like most journalists, I like to think I’ve developed an excellent bullshit detector. So how could I be charmed by a man who organised the murder of his entire family?
I met Bart Whittaker where he now lives – on death row in the Polunsky Unit, a notorious Prison in Texas. I knew all about his crime before I met him, and I’d spoken to his father Kent – the only member of the family to survive Bart’s murder plot – a beautiful man, who has somehow found the faith and grace to forgive his child for orchestrating the brutal murder of his wife and youngest son.
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Bart's Father is an amazing parent.
I understand the father standing buy his son, forgiveness is something we all must do in order to heal ourselves. I am not an advocate of the death penalty, but whatever anyone else choose to believe is up to them. I have experience knowing an individual dying from death penalty to learn several years later they wasn't guilty. So I choose not to believe in killing someone for means of punishment. If The State of Texas go ahead with his son's execution my prayer is that I hope God give Mr. Whitaker what he needs to move on. if the Lord bring us to it he is able to bring us through it.