TREVOR DICKS

JOURNEY OF HOPE...
from violence to healing™

“I have experienced many forms of violence.  My uncle was murdered, leaving only memories.  I have been robbed, beaten, and left for dead.  My brother, who was wrongly convicted of murder, sat on death row for over 20 years before his recent death in prison.  I consider the state’s efforts to kill him and act of violence against my entire family.  For many years we suffered the anguish of knowing my brother’s life could be taken, and we continue to suffer in the knowledge that his life meant so little to the state when it meant so much to us.

When someone is murdered, grieving family members have the comfort of knowing that society condemns the killing.  But when someone is sentenced to die or is executed, grieving family members must face a society that not only embraced the killings but shuns them.  The pain and loss we feel is dismissed or ignored.

Although I have many reasons to hate and seek vengeance, God has shown me the truth – that all life is priceless!”

Trevor Dicks       

Keene, New Hampshire

Trevor has spent many years coping with the anger and rage he first felt as an 11 year old boy when he heard a judge exclaim to his brother Jeffery, “You are to be executed by electrocution until you are pronounced dead, dead, dead!”  He has taken an active part in MVFR’s speaking tours since 1994 and is currently pursuing a career in counseling.  Trevor and his wife Robin have two children.

Reprinted with permission from "Not In Our Name: Murder Victims Families Speak Out Against the Death Penalty," a publication of Murder Victims Families For Reconciliation, Barbara Hood & Rachel King, Editors.  MVFR

Trevor was on the Virginia Journey and Trevor also worked many hours sanding, priming and working on Abolition Movin'