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.

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