Justice Denied: Victims’ Families Speak Out Against Biden’s Death Row Clemency
While some advocates praise the commutations as a step toward ending capital punishment, others are outraged.
Days after the birth of police officer Bryan Hurst’s daughter in early 2005, the Marine was assigned to special duty at a Columbus, Ohio, bank when 25-year-old Daryl Lawrence stormed in with the intent of robbing the establishment. He leaned over a counter and fatally shot the new father at close range.
“Bryan was a man who loved his family fiercely. Although a tough exterior, Bryan was a man who cried tears of happiness during our wedding and on the day his daughter was born,” Hurst’s widow, Marissa Gibson, tells The New York Sun.
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