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How Did Sentencing Bobby Wilcher Leave Lindy Lou Isonhood?
In her TED Talk, Lindy Lou Isonhood describes the Mississippi capital case in which she and the other eleven jurors voted for death. In her car afterward, ordinary life, kids, work, church, and ballgames, felt unreal. She says she went down a rabbit hole. Anger, anxiety, guilt, and depression clung to her. Counseling diagnosed PTSD and told her to talk about the trauma. Outside that office, people told her to get over it because he was a murderer. She became what she calls a silent survivor. In 2006, twelve years later, Bobby Wilcher dropped his appeals. She visited him before the execution, and he told her she did not need to apologize. He forgave her.
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