Yours Truly by Annabel Pitcher

Author:Annabel Pitcher [PITCHER, ANNABEL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Law & Crime, Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Dating & Sex, Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Death & Dying
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2014-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

Love from,

Zoe x

1 Fiction Road

Bath, UK

Chapter 13

S. HARRIS #993765

POLUNSKY UNIT (DEATH ROW)

LIVINGSTON, TEXAS 77351

USA

January 22

Hey Stuart,

I’ve just heard the news. It was announced a couple of days ago, but I only went on the computer this evening. Most times when I click on the Internet, I type in your name to check for updates, and today there was a brand-new story in the Houston Chronicle that said your execution date has been set for May 1.

May 1, Stuart. I can’t believe it. Of all the days.

My hands are shaking so it’s difficult to write even though I’m quite comfy in a brand-new deck chair that Dad must’ve bought in a garden center sale or something. I can’t imagine how you must be feeling. By my calculation, you’re probably just having dinner, and I bet you anything you’ve lost your appetite. Of course, it goes without saying that I’ll do everything I can to help. Maybe I could get in touch with the nun who came into school to talk about capital punishment and we can organize something, e.g., a protest or a petition signed by all the nuns in the convent.

The Texas government can’t put you to sleep. They just can’t. Only last week I read your poem “Forgiveness” and how you “Regret taking a life/With a carving knife/Especially your wife.” Honest truth, I think you deserve a chance to redeem yourself. If I was the president of the United States, of course I would still have prisons, but they would help criminals rather than kill them as if there’s no hope left. If you ask me, no one can write off a human like that, as if they’ve looked inside their soul and decided it’s bad, all bad, without even the tiniest bit of good worth saving.

The least I can do is finish what I started. Now that we’re running out of time, I have to be quick about it. I need to get to the end of my story before May 1, and I hope it takes your mind off the final preparations such as your last meal, which I imagine will be a cheeseburger with curly fries and a milk shake with two straws and a ketchup packet to remind you of the good times. Anyway let’s get on, because we’re working against the clock, so picture the big hand whizzing back twelve months to last January, and we’ll start with me and Lauren sitting on a step outside school, shivering in our coats at break time on the first day of term.

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