- Prejean leaves the execution.
- The Harveys talk to the media and say they're very glad Robert is dead.
- Robert's family calls Prejean about the funeral, and then she gets a call from ABC News to go talk about the death penalty. She doesn't want to… but off she goes.
- The Harveys are there, too, talking about how they are glad Robert was executed.
- Prejean says that executions should be televised because that would shame people into abolishing execution.
- George Will, on the other hand, says people shouldn't witness executions because it would be bad for them… even though he thinks execution is noble.
- Prejean argues that this doesn't make much sense; if execution is noble, why wouldn't seeing it be noble? She seems to have a point.
- George Will is still around, incidentally, but he seems to have changed his position on the death penalty because of concerns that the state will make errors in administering it (source).
- Prejean talks for a bit about how execution is inhumane and awful; she is particularly scornful about the idea that death by lethal injection is humane.
- Prejean feels like public executions were more honest in showing how ugly execution was.
- Prejean also says that the moral wrongness of the death penalty is shown in part by the fact that people still support it even if they know that innocent people are sometimes executed.
- Then Prejean gives us a list of Death Row inmates who were exonerated at the last minute. And of course there are also some who have been executed despite their innocence—and despite the fact that the system knew they were innocent.
- In England, Prejean says, the execution of an innocent man caused the country to ban executions. But in the U.S., some academics argue that even if an occasional innocent man is executed, the death penalty is still justified.
- Prejean goes to Robert's funeral.
- Robert's mother is there and cries and faints.
- Prejean talks to Robert's father briefly and speaks about his last days. She goes back to the house with the family. Robert mom gives her a photo of Robert in Marion.