It’s common, when trying to muster up compassion for someone sitting on death row, to imagine them as “somebody’s child” or “somebody’s father”—a sort of humanity by proxy, through the lens of a loved one. But, sitting in the Polunsky Unit, in East Texas, where he is waiting for his execution date on Thursday, Will Speer has never really fit that description. Abused, used, and manipulated his entire life, Speer entered the Texas prison system as a teenager. He is, in some ways, exactly the kind of person you expect to find on death row—someone who never really had a chance.That’s how he knows whom to pray for, he told me. “I want to pray for the people nobody else wants to pray for.”Sitting for…
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