{"id":159787,"date":"2025-09-21T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159787\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T18:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:39:07","slug":"when-i-get-to-heaven-erika-kirk-reveals-she-wont-seek-death-penalty-for-charlie-kirks-killer-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159787\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;When I get to heaven&#8230;&#8217;: Erika Kirk reveals she won&#8217;t seek death penalty for Charlie Kirk&#8217;s killer because&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/erika-kirk-revealed-that-she-won39t-push-for-death-penalty-for-her-husband39s-killer.jpg\" alt=\"'When I get to heaven...': Erika Kirk reveals she won't seek death penalty for Charlie Kirk's killer because...\" title=\"Erika Kirk revealed that she won't push for death penalty for her husband's killer. \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Erika Kirk revealed that she won&#8217;t push for death penalty for her husband&#8217;s killer.  Ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/charlie-kirk\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>&#8216;s funeral today, his wife Erika Kirk made a major revelation that she would not seek the death penalty for her husband&#8217;s killer. In an interview with the New York Times, Erika said many people are asking her the same question. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be honest. I told our lawyer, I want the government to decide this,&#8221; Erika said. &#8220;I do not want that man&#8217;s blood on my ledger. Because when I get to heaven, and Jesus is like: \u2018Uh, eye for an eye? Is that how we do it?\u2019 And that keeps me from being in heaven, from being with Charlie?&#8221; Erika said. Erika lost her husband on September 10 as a gunman, suspected to be Tyler Roboinson with hatred for Charlie &#8212; killed Charlie with one shot.<\/p>\n<p>Italian PM Meloni Honours Charlie Kirk At Political Event In Rome<\/p>\n<p>Erika remembered how Charlie was too excited to sleep on what turned out to be the last night. \u201cHe got up and I could hear him eating something in the kitchen. He\u2019d been waiting all summer to begin touring.\u201d The visits to college campuses, she said, \u201cwere like an Olympic event for him. He trained for them. He had whiteboard sessions for hours. Mock debates. He was just so excited.\u201dCut to Kirk on his deathbed and Erika said Charlie Kirk had a Mona Lisa-like half smile. \u201cHis eyes were semi-open. And he had this knowing, Mona Lisa-like half-smile. Like he\u2019d died happy. Like Jesus rescued him. The bullet came, he blinked, and he was in heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Kirk refused to wear a bulletproof vest<\/p>\n<p>Erika revealed that Charlie had received numerous death threats over the past year and had been traveling with a security team for months. She implored him to start wearing a bulletproof vest while his team also asked him to speak behind bulletproof glass. Charlie refused and said he was confident in his team and that there would be additional security at the Utah event. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erika Kirk revealed that she won&#8217;t push for death penalty for her husband&#8217;s killer. 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