Mary Ann Malone in 1996. The family of a woman has been fighting for years to block the execution of the man who killed her, but now they say that local officials are refusing to give them answers. Executing Jeremiah Manning would be an offense against Mary Ann Shaver Malone's legacy as she was strongly opposed to capital punishment, said her son Brett Malone, the family's spokesperson.
Manning killed Malone after breaking into the family home and abducting her in a crime that stunned the north Bossier town's tight-knit community. After years of grief, the Malones came together in an understanding that executing the man would only bring more suffering. Brett and Mary Ann Malone in 1997.
Courtesy of Brett Malone. "We're all able to recognize that killing him isn't going to make us feel better, it's not going to change anything that's happened in the past," Malone told The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate in an interview in February. "His death at the hands of the state and in our family's name, will it bring any relief to our family or to the community that we come from or will it simply add more pain, add more loss, add more grief, add more suffering? That's what we're hoping to avoid.
" As Louisiana's legislature moved to expand legal methods of execution to include nitrogen gas and electrocution during this year's special legislative session, the Malones felt they had to adopt a new sense of urgency working to get Manning off of death row. The Bossier Parish District Attorne.