Forgotten Victims: Families of People on Death Row

The Old Testament tenet: Do justice, love mercy, and humbly walk with your God describes much of 83-year old Celia McWee's life; visiting her son on death row before he was executed gave her meaning to her life for 13 years.

clipped from inthefray.org Celia McWee's loved and lost ones.   Celia McWee, 83, looked forward to Saturdays for 13 years. This was her favorite day of the week because she would use it to make herself pretty for her Sunday morning visit. But she wouldn’t go to church. She would visit the state prison. She would drive three hours from Augusta, Georgia, to Ridgeville, South Carolina, to visit her son, Jerry McWee. Jerry had been on death row since he robbed and killed John Perry, a grocery store clerk in rural Aiken County, in 1991. He was executed on April 14, 2004. He was 52.