

"It's not a good thing it's a tough thing you do to protect innocent people," Pace has said of carrying out executions. She said the death penalty isn't something that is morally wrong. Since her daughter's death, Ann Pace has been a victims' advocate and supporter of the death penalty. Lee was on death row for the murder of Murray Pace, a 22-year-old Jackson native, at her Baton Rouge home on May 31, 2002. Closure is a strange term, but this one part of the grief he made is over." The space he took by force of his continued existence will be filled with memory and love for Murray. "There is, of course, no justice for the incredible cruelty that my precious girl suffered, no justice for the life that couldn’t be, but now that he is dead, there will be no room for Derrick Lee in thoughts and dreams anymore beyond wondering why. "This has indeed been a long, sad and frustrating journey in search of justice," Ann Pace said. Lee, who was linked to the deaths of seven south Louisiana women between 19, died Thursday, a Louisiana corrections official confirmed. It's a good thing to avoid the war, but disconcerting in the moment." Feels like being armored for battle, only to find you have no opponent. In its own way, the end of the fight feels like a loss. "Intellectually, I knew that was not the case, but then this morning I realized that this fight - this fighting though the appeals, writing the letters, speaking - all that was a way to keep being Murray's mom, to make up for not keeping her safe. When she died, I had an overwhelming sense of having failed - how could I not have kept my own child safe," Ann Pace said Thursday after hearing of Lee's death. She said she can't explain why, but hearing of Derrick Todd Lee's death has brought her to tears. Ann Pace of Jackson says the death of the Louisiana serial killer who killed her daughter Charlotte Murray Pace in 2002 has left her feeling "like being armored for battle, only to find you have no opponent."
