An unusual gift from Death Row: a scholarship
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2003 8:43 am
By Mary McKee , StarTelegram Dallas Bureau
Brandon Biggs offered something rare to the woman convicted of killing his dad: forgiveness.
Now Death Row inmates are doing something that would seem equally unusual: thanking Biggs for daring to be kind to a killer.
A $10,000 scholarship generated through Compassion, a newsletter written and edited by Death Row inmates, is being awarded to Biggs to help him continue to study for the ministry.
"His overwhelming desire to forgive this woman, it's not something that you generally hear from the public," said Dennis Skillicorn, a Missouri inmate who is Compassion's editor, during a telephone interview from prison. "The message that he was trying to give was far more valuable than any amount of money we could ever give him."
Brandon Biggs offered something rare to the woman convicted of killing his dad: forgiveness.
Now Death Row inmates are doing something that would seem equally unusual: thanking Biggs for daring to be kind to a killer.
A $10,000 scholarship generated through Compassion, a newsletter written and edited by Death Row inmates, is being awarded to Biggs to help him continue to study for the ministry.
"His overwhelming desire to forgive this woman, it's not something that you generally hear from the public," said Dennis Skillicorn, a Missouri inmate who is Compassion's editor, during a telephone interview from prison. "The message that he was trying to give was far more valuable than any amount of money we could ever give him."