Sue’s elderly parents, Richard and Virginia were killed for $61 and an old truck during a robbery on their Oklahoma farm in 1990.
In the courtroom right before B. K. Knighton received the death sentence, Sue told him she had never hated anyone in her life and that she was not going to start with him. After learning about the offender’s life of abuse and rejection, she began visiting him on death row and corresponding with him regularly. His life has been changed through her friendship, courage, and faith and he accepted Jesus
Christ as his Savior than a year after she came to know him. Sue has found that real human beings live in prison, not the animals we are told to expect. “When they are treated with the love of God,” she says, “we many times see that same love reflected back to us, just as is true for any of us outside of prison.
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.
B. K. Knighton was executed by the State of Oklahoma
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