Jonathan Hirsch

It's down to the wire.

There's 40 minutes before the scheduled lethal injection when Kent receives a phone call.

Abbott is granting clemency, commuting Bart's death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the first-ever motion like that from the governor.

And it's fascinating, right?

Like, not everybody agrees with this.

Yeah, I'm curious what all of y'all think when you hear this story.

Like, do you believe that justice was served here?

Would you have done the same thing as Kent?

There's so many questions.

Yes.

So Bart leaves death row for this maximum security unit, and he begins to serve his life without parole.

He starts to study.

He's writing a lot.

He continues to express remorse.

He was a very messed up young man, he says, and deserves punishment.

Yeah.

And Kent continues to visit his son and speak publicly about, you know, forgiveness and all of that.

And he's, you know, says that like arguing for sparing Bart's life is a better reflection of his and Tricia's values than the execution ever would have been.

So Kent goes on to write a book about this, which we've been talking about before, Murder by Family.

It's an incredible read and I would encourage all of y'all to take a look at it.