The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles, whose members are appointed by the Governor and serve at his discretion, were put under great pressure yesterday to reverse a previous decision to parole a female prisoner who had murdered her husband. They made the decision to release her based on testimony that seemed to indicate the woman and her children had been abused.

Those on the other side could only refute those charges by claiming it was character assassination and that if there had been abuse someone should have known about it. Well, people did know about it, but unfortunately her mother, who kept detailed accounts of the abuse did not testify:

Melanie Lowery’s 82-year-old mother, Willie Gray, crumpled in her wheelchair after the decision.

Neither Gray nor Melanie Lowery’s sons chose to speak at the hearing. Gray said she regretted her decision.

“I’m sick, but I wish I would have gone,” she said.

Gray kept detailed accounts of her daughter’s suffering and began recounting them for the news cameras.

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