Their Favoritism Resulted In A Cruel Outcome Chapter 17
Connor, too, was convicted of felony murder.
The prosecution sought the death penalty for the principal defendants.
After the jury saw Molly’s photograph and Hannah’s note, they did not choose life imprisonment.
The day the sentence was announced, my father closed his eyes.
“This time, it’s real.”
That single sentence made the entire courtroom go still.
The threat they had fabricated with their own hands had finally come for them.
Those men were truly being sent to death row.
The women they were supposed to take home had long since been buried.
Henry suddenly laughed.
He laughed for a long time, then covered his face with both hands and cried so hard his whole body shook.
“Molly must have been so scared that night.”
“She said she was afraid of the dark.”
“And I was sitting there, having dinner with Blair.”
No one comforted him.
Luke leaned back in his chair and pressed his palm to his own abdomen.
It was as if he was trying to understand just how small that unborn child had been.
James took one of Lauren’s high heels from his pocket.
He held it against his chest. In three years, half his hair had turned white.
My father huddled in the corner of the defendant’s box.
The back that had once been so straight was now bent.