Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, September twenty third, and
Speaker 1: a man is pleading, begging it, the state of Alabama
Speaker 1: not to execute the convicted killer.
Speaker 2: Who shot his mom in the head. Welcome to this
Speaker 2: episode of Amy and TJ.
Speaker 3: Rose.
Speaker 2: We hear this every once in a while, which we
Speaker 2: right now have a man begging it to spare the
Speaker 2: life of the man who killed his mother.
Speaker 3: It's remarkable, and when you hear his impassioned plea, I
Speaker 3: you can't help but feel for this man and wish
Speaker 3: that more people could have his grace and his forgiveness.
Speaker 3: And there's so much to be learned from what this
Speaker 3: son feels for this killer. It's remarkable to me.
Speaker 2: I didn't plan to go here yet, but you made
Speaker 2: me think of something. Does it require faith? Because when
Speaker 2: I hear about stories like this, oftentimes it's people of
Speaker 2: very strong faith attached to it.
Speaker 3: I think that that is almost certain and almost always
Speaker 3: the case. I can't think of an example where it
Speaker 3: hasn't been attributed to God, to being christ Like, to faith. Yes,
Speaker 3: that's where it stems from.
Speaker 2: Because we just saw and I obviously what we saw
Speaker 2: with Erica Kirk was a chilling moment that most of
Speaker 2: us cannot relate to in many ways, that level of forgiveness.
Speaker 2: It made us think about Charleston as well. You remember
Speaker 2: how quickly those parishioners forgave that guy who goes and
Speaker 2: shoots up a church full of people praying literally in
Speaker 2: Bible class. They forgave him at It wasn't even at trial.
Speaker 2: It was like his bail hearing or something like, very
Speaker 2: very quickly. I don't know how. I'm not a man
Speaker 2: of that type of faith that grew up in the
Speaker 2: church as did you. But that concept of that forgiveness
Speaker 2: Christ on the Cross, forgive them for they know not
Speaker 2: what they do as he's being killed. That's the spirit
Speaker 2: of this, I.
Speaker 3: Suppose, And it's that value of human life and what
Speaker 3: we're hearing from this son in his plea to not
Speaker 3: have his mother's killer killed, which his execution is set
Speaker 3: for this week for Thursday, he talks about the value
Speaker 3: of this man's life and the value of being able
Speaker 3: to have conversations with him, and he even said ultimately
Speaker 3: his wish would be to be able to see him,
Speaker 3: meet him and pray with him. That is remarkable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we shoul I'll tell you what we were talking
Speaker 2: about here. The killer is Jeffrey West. He is the
Speaker 2: convicted killer, and he is as we speak, scheduled to
Speaker 2: be executed in Alabama this week by nitrogen gas. This
Speaker 2: is supposed to happen on Thursday evening, so the clock
Speaker 2: is now ticking. He was convicted of a nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: seven murder of Margaret Parish Barry. She was a woman
Speaker 2: who was working in a gas station, had two sons.
Speaker 2: She worked at a support obviously her family. She was
Speaker 2: shot and killed. She cooperated, according to authorities, gave the money.
Speaker 2: It netted Jeffrey West and his girlfriend at the time
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty bucks. And this woman was shot
Speaker 2: and killed as she laid on the floor behind the counter.
Speaker 2: She was executed, according to police, because they did not
Speaker 2: want to leave witnesses. That's the horror of the crime.
Speaker 2: Will Barry Robes was eleven years old at the time.
Speaker 2: That then eleven year old, now an adult male is
Speaker 2: saying that the man who did that to my mother
Speaker 2: and robbed me at eleven years old, I want to spare.
Speaker 3: His life right. And Jeffrey West, the man convicted of
Speaker 3: this crime, who admits the crime was twenty one at
Speaker 3: the time Will Barry was eleven. Think about that, they're
Speaker 3: just ten years apart. You know, they're almost in terms
Speaker 3: of just at this point in age, he's forty and
Speaker 3: Jeffrey West is fifty and he wants to have a
Speaker 3: relationship with this man, which is remarkable to me. But
Speaker 3: it is one of the worst crimes, being shot execution style,
Speaker 3: This poor woman, knowing she's got two young sons at home.
Speaker 3: I can't even imagine the grief and the horror and
Speaker 3: the And that's not a crime that is one and done.
Speaker 3: That is something that you live with for the rest
Speaker 3: of your life, that has affected your life from the
Speaker 3: moment your mom was taken away from you at such
Speaker 3: a young age. So for him to be able to
Speaker 3: be at this place and space in his life is
Speaker 3: nothing short of a miracle.
Speaker 2: See I thought, even so, how this kind of all
Speaker 2: got going here? In a lot of ways, spokes is
Speaker 2: that Barry and West, yes, the convicted killer and the
Speaker 2: son of the woman he's convicted of killing, have been
Speaker 2: exchanging letters, and from all descriptions at least I've read robes,
Speaker 2: they're like almost pleasantries. I don't want to go that far.
Speaker 2: But I'm saying these are notes in which they have
Speaker 2: found some kind of peace with each within each other.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's a beautiful thing because obviously, well
Speaker 3: I don't say obviously, because not all convicted murderers feel
Speaker 3: this way. But Jeffrey West has expressed true remorse, and
Speaker 3: we can get into some of his specific quotes because
Speaker 3: they are powerful. And then you have Will Barry expressing
Speaker 3: this incredible desire to forgive and to have those two
Speaker 3: things come together in this moment and to have them
Speaker 3: share that back and forth where Will Barry is willing
Speaker 3: to give him grace. That is just a something you
Speaker 3: don't see every day.
Speaker 2: And well, he's requested that's one Forgiveness is one thing.
Speaker 2: Letting go its one thing. I mean people have forgiven
Speaker 2: and still not try to stop at execution. This is
Speaker 2: a different situation in which West and Barry have actually
Speaker 2: requested no. I should correct that Barry was the one
Speaker 2: who requested he wanted to meet with the killer. He
Speaker 2: wanted to meet the man who killed his mother. He
Speaker 2: put that request in through West's attorneys and through his team,
Speaker 2: and they okayed it. But they're not being allowed to
Speaker 2: see each other and Rome's I guess it kind of
Speaker 2: makes sense to have these rules in place.
Speaker 3: They say it's about security, that you can't have a
Speaker 3: victim of the crime meet the criminal because there are
Speaker 3: security concerns. They're concerned about what people's.
Speaker 4: Intent might be.
Speaker 3: You say, you want to go there to have a
Speaker 3: pleasant conversation or to perhaps have some closure for something,
Speaker 3: and then violence could ensue. So they just for they
Speaker 3: just put out a general rule for everybody. Sorry, we
Speaker 3: can't make exceptions, but this is a matter of security.
Speaker 2: Which makes perfect I guess that I don't know if
Speaker 2: exceptions or any safety exceptions could ever be made, but
Speaker 2: this is how far he's going. I just find it
Speaker 2: remarkable Robes that this man is not just he's not
Speaker 2: just pleading for the sake of pleading and just saying
Speaker 2: I don't want that on my conscious kind of a thing.
Speaker 2: He's saying, there is something valuable in this man being
Speaker 2: alive to his life that has been now denied so
Speaker 2: much because he didn't have his mom to hear that
Speaker 2: I need this man for something in my life. Please
Speaker 2: don't kill him. That doesn't go far in the court
Speaker 2: of the law, but in a heart in your heart,
Speaker 2: like God, whatever.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: We've seen this happen before, where you have victims' family members.
Speaker 3: The surviving family members literally beg authorities not to put
Speaker 3: the murderer of the person who took away their loved
Speaker 3: one to death because they don't want that on their conscience.
Speaker 3: And I believe Barry said something to the effect of,
Speaker 3: I know it's being done on my behalf in the
Speaker 3: sense that I am the person who suffered the most.
Speaker 3: I am the victim of the crime because I'm the
Speaker 3: one who lost my mother, and I'm the one saying, please, please,
Speaker 3: don't murder this man on my behalf. It's almost as
Speaker 3: if he feels like it weighs on his conscience that
Speaker 3: somehow he's responsible for now what will be almost certainly
Speaker 3: the death of Jeffrey West.
Speaker 2: Haven't I heard a time?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 2: Maybe you can think of one off the top of
Speaker 2: your head. I've heard some families not want a person
Speaker 2: to be executed because no, we want to stay in
Speaker 2: prison and suffer.
Speaker 3: Right, So yes, I have to that. It's more punishment.
Speaker 3: It's an easy way out is death. The hard way
Speaker 3: out is to actually have to live with the crime
Speaker 3: and wake up every morning behind bars.
Speaker 2: I would be totally okay. I don't know how this
Speaker 2: could work ever legally, but I think the victims family
Speaker 2: should decide if they say no, we do not want
Speaker 2: this person executed, then they shouldn't be executed. I don't
Speaker 2: think they should be able to say yes, but if
Speaker 2: the family says we don't wish.
Speaker 3: This, I would be so fine. If that were written
Speaker 3: into the laws. They should have a veto basically, a
Speaker 3: veto power basically where they could say, Okay, I understand
Speaker 3: that the state has sentenced him to death. I understand
Speaker 3: that a jury of his peers has sentenced him to death.
Speaker 3: But I get a veto, and if the victims agree,
Speaker 3: then I would be fully for that. That makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2: We know we're not probably going to see that no.
Speaker 2: That would also another thing I just thought about because
Speaker 2: so many, how many victims feel as if there's no
Speaker 2: one advocating for them, there's nobody on their side, victims, families,
Speaker 2: even in this case of a Barry talking about he
Speaker 2: didn't get any kind of heads up that there was
Speaker 2: an execution date. He had to find out about it
Speaker 2: on Facebook or something like that. Those types of things,
Speaker 2: like they don't feel like they have any power or
Speaker 2: say and oftentimes of what happens, and nobody's advocating for them,
Speaker 2: So this would be some level of involvement or control,
Speaker 2: if you will.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's funny. As soon as you said that,
Speaker 3: I thought immediately of the Epstein victims. But this is
Speaker 3: just another example, and this is unfortunately the way our
Speaker 3: legal system work. We don't give enough credit to or
Speaker 3: at least we don't. We don't give them the bare minimum,
Speaker 3: the victims and the people left behind, to not be notified,
Speaker 3: to not be included in the process, to not be
Speaker 3: listened to, regarded, or even have what you want to
Speaker 3: happen be considered. That is that's tough, and I don't
Speaker 3: think that's We don't treat victims and victims' families correctly
Speaker 3: in our legal system period.
Speaker 2: We hear it all the time, right, getting victimized over
Speaker 2: and over again. Yeah, he's getting victimized, victimized. Well, folks,
Speaker 2: this one. Some of these details have been kind of chilling,
Speaker 2: and they kind of stir you, they kind of inspire
Speaker 2: you to a certain degree as well. But I assure
Speaker 2: you you ain't heard nothing yet. Stay here with us
Speaker 2: when we come back. We are going to read some
Speaker 2: of the most powerful words from the victim's son, words
Speaker 2: in which he is making a very public plea, do
Speaker 2: not kill the man that killed my mom.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to this edition of Amy and TJ, where
Speaker 3: we are talking about a scheduled education execution that is
Speaker 3: said to happen on Thursday. A man who murdered a
Speaker 3: mother of two execution style during a robbery. He is
Speaker 3: set to die by nitrogen gas in the state of Alabama.
Speaker 3: His name is Jeffrey West. He was twenty one at
Speaker 3: the time at the crime. He's fifty now. But the
Speaker 3: remarkable thing about this story is the son of the
Speaker 3: woman who he murdered is now making an impassioned plea
Speaker 3: to have that execution. State He would like to see
Speaker 3: Jeffrey West live out the rest of his life behind bars,
Speaker 3: but he would like the opportunity to meet with him,
Speaker 3: connect with him, pray with him. And he thinks there
Speaker 3: is value in letting this man live. And it is
Speaker 3: a powerful, powerful letter that he wrote to authorities trying
Speaker 3: to see if he can have any impact or any
Speaker 3: influence over this execution again that is scheduled on Thursday.
Speaker 3: And just to note, Jeffrey West. We have some quotes
Speaker 3: from him about his level of remorse, not that that
Speaker 3: makes it okay, not that it makes him any less guilty.
Speaker 3: He says, there is not a day that goes by
Speaker 3: that I don't regret it and wish that I could
Speaker 3: take that back. Of course, he's referring to the murder.
Speaker 3: I wish I had the opportunity just to swap places
Speaker 3: and let it be me and not her.
Speaker 2: Can you, I mean, it's hard to It is difficult,
Speaker 2: but people can change see things differently. He's had almost
Speaker 2: thirty years to think about this, and it's difficult to
Speaker 2: have remorse or feel bad for someone who did such
Speaker 2: a horrific crime. But can we be open to the
Speaker 2: possibility that what he did then is who he was
Speaker 2: and what he said now is who he is now.
Speaker 3: I think that's absolutely possibly hard to do. He was
Speaker 3: twenty one. Look, I'm not excusing anything that he did
Speaker 3: at all. It's disgusting, horrific, and he should be behind
Speaker 3: bars for the rest of his life. But he was
Speaker 3: twenty one, and it was interesting for me to think
Speaker 3: about the fact that this young kid, this son, now
Speaker 3: who is standing up for this man who murdered his
Speaker 3: mother was eleven at the time. They're ten years apart, so.
Speaker 2: There could be brothers.
Speaker 3: They yes, right that ten years doesn't mean anything now
Speaker 3: at this point in terms of a difference in how
Speaker 3: they probably view the world. But certainly they've had very
Speaker 3: different experiences, and certainly Barry has suffered greatly because of
Speaker 3: what this man did.
Speaker 2: And Will Berry, we want to let you hear it
Speaker 2: in his words. He wrote an extended op ed a
Speaker 2: little bit back that was put in a local paper there.
Speaker 2: But he explains better than we can where his head is.
Speaker 2: I will start with his first excerp. He says, quote,
Speaker 2: mister West was sentenced to death for killing my mother.
Speaker 2: His execution data set for September twenty fifth, But I
Speaker 2: do not want the state of Alabama to kill him.
Speaker 2: That won't bring back my mother. It will only add
Speaker 2: to the pain I have lived with since the night
Speaker 2: she was shot. I believe there is a better way.
Speaker 2: Like hearing that line, how can you deny his request?
Speaker 2: You haven't even heard that, like, oh, some of the
Speaker 2: heaviest stuff. But that's just it's sincere, and I know
Speaker 2: the law is the law. He wrote to the governor.
Speaker 2: The governor wrote back, said she has to do what
Speaker 2: the law requires her to do. I get it, but
Speaker 2: she does have the options.
Speaker 3: She said that she has stayed one execution, but that
Speaker 3: was because there was some doubt into whether or not
Speaker 3: that person had actually committed the crime, and that is
Speaker 3: the only time she's done it. It doesn't sound like
Speaker 3: she is willing to consider that in this case.
Speaker 2: Should we do we remind me? Please? Don't prosecutors talk
Speaker 2: to families ahead of time, say hey about a plea deal?
Speaker 2: They often talked to them about. Do they also give
Speaker 2: them and say, hey, would you like us to go
Speaker 2: for the death penalty? Would you not do they?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think they should. But the problem
Speaker 3: was will Berry was eleven years old at the time,
Speaker 3: so they would never take the word or the thoughts
Speaker 3: or sentiments of an eleven year old. They wouldn't put
Speaker 3: that on him. So I think he was just too
Speaker 3: young to weigh in. And I don't know what the
Speaker 3: other family members generally speak.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of cases. I'm thinking more so
Speaker 2: law and order or something maybe right now I'm what
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of cases. Do prosecutors often consult
Speaker 2: with the family and take into account their wishes.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't it be at the discretion of the prosecutor. I
Speaker 3: don't know that there's some hard fast rule. It probably
Speaker 3: is case my case.
Speaker 2: If they some maybe do it, some maybe don't. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that was that's this guy. Your heart hurts for this guy.
Speaker 3: We want to read some more of what he wrote
Speaker 3: in this op ed because this will move you. My
Speaker 3: mother was the person I loved most in the world.
Speaker 3: Her absence and the senseless way she died has cast
Speaker 3: a long shadow over my life. Even so, the weeks
Speaker 3: since I learned that Governor Ivy set an execution date
Speaker 3: for mister West have been some of the most unsettling
Speaker 3: I can recall. My dearest wish is to meet with
Speaker 3: mister West. Yet with only weeks left until his execution date,
Speaker 3: it's not clear who has the power to make that happen,
Speaker 3: or how to ask them directly?
Speaker 2: Is life from eleven years old to now? That chunk
Speaker 2: of his life he needs some resolve too, and he's
Speaker 2: got the clock is ticking. Any answer he needs or anything,
Speaker 2: any piece he wants. The clock is ticking for this guy.
Speaker 3: That is It's yeah, it's a matter of days. And
Speaker 3: here's here's a really really significant part of what he wrote.
Speaker 3: Because we were just talking about how victims are not
Speaker 3: empowered in our legal system, and so he writes, I
Speaker 3: was a child when mister West took my mother's life,
Speaker 3: old enough to understand what had happened, but too young
Speaker 3: to process it. I had no say at the trial.
Speaker 3: I've had no say since then. No one from the
Speaker 3: Alabama Attorney General's office called me in April to say
Speaker 3: they had requested an execution date. No one from the
Speaker 3: governor's office called in July when Governor Ivy said it.
Speaker 3: If my wife hadn't stumbled across an article on Facebook,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure when I would have learned.
Speaker 2: Obviously that's horrible. Okay, obviously that's awful. Obviously that's terrible.
Speaker 2: And I think too many, so many victims have that story,
Speaker 2: don't they.
Speaker 3: Yes, this is a common theme that we need to correct,
Speaker 3: that we can correct in this country.
Speaker 2: So he feels like a victim again, and now the
Speaker 2: thing that can give him peace, He says, the clock
Speaker 2: is ticking for him. I don't have you seen anywhere
Speaker 2: in researching this story. I don't think he has any
Speaker 2: options left. I guess the Supreme Court maybe would be
Speaker 2: the only one with the governor.
Speaker 3: The governor it's the end, you know, they've got the
Speaker 3: phone sitting there, but she's already said, she's already said
Speaker 3: she's not going to So it doesn't look like there's
Speaker 3: much he can do. But just to hear this, this
Speaker 3: man's plea, that this is causing him even more pain,
Speaker 3: is just.
Speaker 2: I don't know, how is there a a who are
Speaker 2: you harming by not executing the guy? Right? So I
Speaker 2: guess the state of Alabama can say, no, he's a
Speaker 2: horrible person. We've decided, and we have laws, and we
Speaker 2: want him dead. But the person impacted most by his
Speaker 2: action who gets whose word should count in this matter?
Speaker 2: And this next excerpt here Robes is the one where
Speaker 2: he really gets into and you give some insight into
Speaker 2: how his faith is informing his belief and his decision
Speaker 2: and his push and his plea to save this man's life.
Speaker 3: Now, I believe in the teachings of Jesus and in
Speaker 3: his words on the Mount, For if you forgive other
Speaker 3: people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will
Speaker 3: also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others
Speaker 3: their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. My
Speaker 3: faith teaches that every trial we endure brings us closer
Speaker 3: to salvation. It teaches submission to God's will.
Speaker 2: This next line here, he said that he believes that
Speaker 2: in seeking his execution, the state of Alabama is playing God.
Speaker 2: What do we do with that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: This is now a a what it's become now a
Speaker 2: death penalty debate to a certain degree, and a lot
Speaker 2: of people have an issue with that. I don't want
Speaker 2: anyone to exactly revenge in my name, he says, nor
Speaker 2: in my mother. I believe life without the possibility of
Speaker 2: parole is just punishment. There is an ending to this
Speaker 2: story where mister West and I find comfort in each
Speaker 2: other and in the healing power of forgiveness. What the
Speaker 2: actual wow.
Speaker 3: That brings tears to my eyes? Because then he goes
Speaker 3: further and says, I want to tell mister West that
Speaker 3: I forgive him, and I want to ask questions both
Speaker 3: about what happened that night and about who he is
Speaker 3: as a man. In some ways, I suppose I just
Speaker 3: want to be in a room with him. Through his
Speaker 3: legal team, mister West has agreed to my request, even
Speaker 3: in what may be the last weeks of his life.
Speaker 3: He is willing to spend time with me and reckon
Speaker 3: with the harm he has caused. I believe that speaks
Speaker 3: well of him. Despite the deadly mistake he made the
Speaker 3: night he killed my mother. I know that she forgives
Speaker 3: him and that she would want me to sit down
Speaker 3: with him. Oh that makes me like cry, how are
Speaker 3: you going.
Speaker 2: To deny that guy's request. I know it's a legal process,
Speaker 2: but my good, sweet lord, the part there he sounded
Speaker 2: like a guy that if you were in front of him,
Speaker 2: it sounds like almost he said, I don't know, just please,
Speaker 2: I just want to get in a room with him,
Speaker 2: Like he doesn't have it all figured out.
Speaker 3: I just need this just it's closure for him, and
Speaker 3: it's a connection to his mother. He was the last
Speaker 3: person to see his mother alive, but he was.
Speaker 2: Also the one who caused her to have that last
Speaker 2: moment of life. Whoo, this one is man.
Speaker 3: Wow. And then he goes on to say, and this
Speaker 3: is what we've been speaking to. The criminal justice system
Speaker 3: is not built with victims needs, wishes and well being
Speaker 3: in mind. I know that as well as anybody, because
Speaker 3: what is being done in my name is not what
Speaker 3: I need or want. I know the clemency is a
Speaker 3: lot to ask for, but having spoken with a restorative
Speaker 3: justice specialist who is also in communication with mister West,
Speaker 3: I feel hopeful there could be a future where he
Speaker 3: and I might sit down together, where we might pray together.
Speaker 2: Who is this guy?
Speaker 3: Is an amazing human being?
Speaker 2: You take the last one here, I'm crying out for
Speaker 2: the moment.
Speaker 4: This, this last one is is a powerful way to
Speaker 4: close this and to give us all something to think about.
Speaker 3: Someone we may need to forgive in our lives, even
Speaker 3: if it's ourselves. But this is just beautiful. He says
Speaker 3: time is working against us. Time is working against all
Speaker 3: of us.
Speaker 2: So I know that was the first point I was making. Yes,
Speaker 2: he his first line there applies to everybody.
Speaker 3: Time is working against us. Whether or not she can
Speaker 3: see her way to granting clemency, at the very least,
Speaker 3: I hope Governor Ivy will grant a reprieve, which she
Speaker 3: has the authority to do. That time would allow mister West,
Speaker 3: his family, and mine to engage in vital healing conversations.
Speaker 3: I need time to heal all.
Speaker 2: I have never ever, ever, ever gotten involved politically and
Speaker 2: advocating for somebody to get the death pill on me
Speaker 2: or not. But he is not even asking to spare
Speaker 2: his life moving forward. Just give me a beat, she is.
Speaker 2: He's actually saying a reprieve. Just give me a reprieve
Speaker 2: so we can have some time to do what I
Speaker 2: need to do. How can you deny that? And not
Speaker 2: a human level, bro, not a legal level, not a
Speaker 2: state of alabima. Is on a human level.
Speaker 3: It's heartbreaking because because he wants he's not allowed to
Speaker 3: meet this man. He's not allowed to talk to this man.
Speaker 3: And that's all he's asking for is time to do so.
Speaker 2: You can put them behind glass. We can guarantee safety.
Speaker 3: We can do that, absolutely, they can.
Speaker 4: We can do that.
Speaker 1: I just that part.
Speaker 2: Just I need a minute, give me a reprieve, just
Speaker 2: delay to let this happen. We don't know what's going
Speaker 2: to happen. We're not obviously laws, government, governor. These are
Speaker 2: all tough decisions and we get it. But this, if
Speaker 2: ever an exception to be made, I don't know. If
Speaker 2: there's some I don't know what the damage is ropes
Speaker 2: in setting a precedent or something, I don't know, But
Speaker 2: what is the damage in giving an eleven year old kid,
Speaker 2: which is what he is, which is what he's stuck
Speaker 2: at as far as his relationship with his mom, giving
Speaker 2: that kid a moment he's not had.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, we know how these things typically turn out. We will,
Speaker 3: of course stay on top of it. But yes, right now,
Speaker 3: Jeffrey West's execution is set for this Thursday. We will
Speaker 3: keep you updated, but we hope at the very least
Speaker 3: this moves some of you. All of you, I know
Speaker 3: it has certainly us to have that forgiving spirit in
Speaker 3: our hearts because you are set free from that anger
Speaker 3: and that resentment. And this is just a beautiful example
Speaker 3: in a world where we don't have many moments like these.
Speaker 3: But also, yes, very reminiscent of Erica Kirk this past week.
Speaker 3: So with that, everyone, thank you for listening to us.
Speaker 3: I'm Ami Roebach alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll talk to you
Speaker 3: really soon.