Two years after Brandon Biggs first expressed forgiveness for Chante Mallard, the woman who killed his father in a nationally-publicized Texas murder, he has received a $10,000 college scholarship from prisoners on death row. The scholarship is funded through advertising and subscriptions to “Compassion,” a two-year-old newsletter edited by and featuring articles by death row inmates across the nation. Biggs, whose father was struck by a car on a Fort Worth highway and left to bleed to death, is the third murder victims’ family member to earn the award. During Mallard’s trial, Biggs expressed his forgiveness and told her family, “There’s no winners in a case like this. Just as we all lost Greg (Biggs’s father), you will be losing your daughter.” During the scholarship presentation, he added, “If love is what makes the world go round, compassion makes it sincere.” Mallard is serving 50 years in prison for the murder, and Biggs is a pastoral ministries sophomore at Southwest Assemblies of God University in Texas. (New York Times, October 23, 2003) See Victims.
- Death Penalty Information Center (2025, March 14). Victim's Son Awarded Scholarship from Prisoners on Death Row. Retrieved October 3, 2026, from https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/victims-son-awarded-scholarship-from-prisoners-on-death-row
- Death Penalty Information Center. “Victim's Son Awarded Scholarship from Prisoners on Death Row.” Last modified March 14, 2025. Accessed October 3, 2026. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/victims-son-awarded-scholarship-from-prisoners-on-death-row.
- Death Penalty Information Center. “Victim's Son Awarded Scholarship from Prisoners on Death Row.” Death Penalty Information Center, 14 Mar. 2025, https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/victims-son-awarded-scholarship-from-prisoners-on-death-row. Accessed 3 Oct. 2026.