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| Death Row Inmate's Family Victims Too |
| By rapidcityjournal.com |
| Published: 05/12/2010 |
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LIVINGSTON, Texas --- Death row inmate Kevin Varga didn’t get the reprieve he wanted, but he did get the forgiveness he needed from at least one person. Varga’s 20-year-old stepson, Stephen Smith of Rapid City, said he and his younger brother, Richard, aren’t the same kind of victims as the family of David Logie, but their lives also were forever changed by the murder. “I would never say I think of myself as a victim like the families of the people who were lost,” Stephen said. “But we were definitely victims, because we lost our father. He left us up in South Dakota to do whatever he wanted to do. That’s how I feel victimized.” On Tuesday, in what will almost certainly be Varga’s last full day of life, his sons and his mother, Beth Varga, spent the day with their dad and son inside the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. That imposing structure of concrete and concertina wire sits about five miles outside of Livingston and holds the 319 men on death row. There, Stephen asked the only father he has ever known the question that haunted his childhood: “Why me and Richard weren’t enough for him?” Read More. |
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