Eyes Wide Shut
November, 2002
Two Lives LostByron Parker took the life of 11-year-old Christie Ann Griffith ("Clemency," The Playboy Forum, August). That was the tragedy--not the actions of the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles when it didn't grant him clemency, nor his treatment on death row, nor his execution. He was allowed to live and breathe for nearly two decades after committing a horrible, senseless act. I feel no sympathy for Parker, regardless of how much he may have rehabilitated himself. And I...
