[h=1]Victim's family says Derrick Mason's scheduled execution Thursday is justice delayed[/h]
Anne Larrivee presses the index finger of each hand into her cheeks to point out where Derrick Mason fired two shots that killed her daughter, Angela Cagle, during a convenience store robbery in 1994. "The bullet holes were where her dimples had been," Larrivee said. "To think of the fear and terror she felt."
Larrivee, who will watch Mason's execution by lethal injection Thursday in Holman Correctional Institute in Atmore, last week haltingly recalled how her daughter looked in the morgue.
She remembers how her daughter's face was reconstructed for the funeral, and how the family wasn't allowed to touch her face.
"I can watch Derrick Mason pay for doing that," she said.
It will have been nearly 6,400 days from when Cagle was shot twice in the face while lying naked on a table in the store's storage room and Mason's execution. Many of those have been hard days for Larrivee and others in Cagle's family.
"I lost 40 pounds," Larrivee said. "I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I prayed to God to take me home so I could kiss my Angie."
She said people have told her that she needs to get over it and get on with her life.
"Those people don't have a clue what they're talking about," she said. "You'll never get over it when your child is gone."
Larrivee fought back tears as she talked about how much she misses her oldest child, and how Cagle's sister, Tammy Worsham, who is 28 but was 10 when Cagle was killed, had nightmares about her sister's death until last year.
Mason, now 37, was 19 when he killed Cagle at the EZ Serve Citgo at 1450 Sparkman Drive. A customer found her body in the early morning hours of March 27, 1994.
Mason, who confessed to killing Cagle, was convicted of capital murder in June 1995 and sentenced to death by Madison County Circuit Court Judge Loyd Little two months later.
Cagle had been married five years when she was killed and had no children.
She "was just the sweetest person" and would help anybody, Larrivee said.
"She believed in people," Larrivee said. "She thought everybody had good in them if you just treated them right."
Larrivee was asked if she agreed with her daughter's optimism about people. Her thoughts immediately went to Mason. "No, I don't believe that," she said.
The family has waited impatiently through the years consumed by Mason's trial and numerous appeals, Larrivee said. She was relieved last month when the Alabama Supreme Court
set Mason's execution date.
"We will finally have as much closure as we could have," Larrivee said. "We'll never have Angie back, but her killer will finally get the punishment he deserves."
It's justice delayed for 17 years, Worsham said.
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/09/victims_family_says_derrick_ma.html
Another piece of shit killer will soon be put down like the animal he is.
