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Quote #10
There at the Pardon Board hearing, Lloyd LeBlanc had done what was asked of him. Speaking for both families, he asked that the law of execution be carried out. But after the execution he was troubled and sought out his parish priest and went to confession. (11.148)
At the very end of the book, you find out that Lloyd LeBlanc did not really want to execute Pat Sonnier, who had killed his son David. Lloyd LeBlanc's feelings of guilt about the execution make him in some ways the moral center of the book: he wants to extend mercy to someone who has injured him. That kind of forgiving is the essence of Christianity, for Prejean, and it comes out of both faith and guilt.