Sisters ask Bryant to spare brother who killed their children
Two women are asking Gov. Phil Bryant to spare their brother from execution on Tuesday even though he stabbed one of them, killed four of their children, and paralyzed another. Henry Jackson Jr., known as Curtis, killed the children, ages 2 to 5, during a 1990 rampage that began when he went to his mother’s home in Leflore County to rob her safe. His sister, Regina Jackson, was stabbed five times. Her two daughters and two nephews were stabbed to death. Another niece was so severely injured that she was paraplegic until her recent death. In a letter to the governor, Regina Jackson said she “just can’t take any more killing.” Another sister and her husband, Glenda and Andrew Kuyoro, also wrote, saying, “We are not asking you to take pity on Curtis, we’re asking you to show US mercy.”
AP
6/4/12
Magnolia Tribune
