We continue with Part VI of our interview with Randy and Rosie Williamson:
101: Our nation in general and Texas in particular has a common sentiment expressed in some quarters about "getting tough on crime" and "let's lock the bums up so they won't be a menace to society." In light of the recent wave of publicity about the excecutions on Texas' Death Row such as Karla Faye Tucker and also what has went on with the Darlene Routier case - and maybe even going back to Henry Lee Lucas - I want to know how you both would respond to them and what you would say in regards to all of this.
Mr. Williamson: Well, I think Karla Faye Tucker - I believe she was at peace with God when the State of Texas MURDERED her. And you might wonder why I phrase it like that because in the mind of the government officials, they didn't murder her - they merely executed her to fulfill the law. However, we stray and we do err when we twist and pervert the Scriptures to say what we want them to say instead of what they really say. My Bible and everybody else's Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill." The Texas Legislature and our Supreme Court has ignored those Scriptures and said, "We are the higher authority than the Scriptures." The Scriptures are for people, the common people who wish to believe them. We as the State and as the government who governs the people - we have unanimously passed laws legally and properly condoning capital punishmente - "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." Therefore, we will have no conscience about the lives we take.
How it all relates to Karla Faye Tucker is in the fact that the Parole Board issues a public statement that was printed in the newsletters and they said, "We cannot give Karla Faye Tucker a pardon unless she asks us for it." Karla Faye Tucker said, "I'm guilty of the crime I was convicted for. I'm not going to beg for my life because my life belongs to God. If God wants me to beg for my life, maybe He'll inspire me to. But so far, He hasn't." So the State then publicly said, "We demand that she beg us for her life." - and she, the meek Christian, said "No - I'm not going to beg any man to spare my life. My life belongs to the Lord." The Lord allowed the State of Texas to murder her - they didn't merely execute her because the definition of murder is "with premeditation to take a life."
