Robert Lee Miller Jr. was convicted of the crime and given a death sentence but was freed 10 years later based on DNA evidence. Ronnie Lott, whose DNA matches that found at the scene, stands currently accused. Jim Fowler has agreed to speak against the death penalty for Lott. I don't think my mother is hollering down for me to bring death on her killer. The experience of convicting the wrong man in Fowler's mother's murder has made members of the Fowler family even more skeptical of the death penalty process.
Any human system has holes in it.
In 1990, Jim Fowler's oldest son, James Gregory, was killed in an automobile accident. Fowler said the death of his son deepened his empathy for the families of the IGA victims. Before a child dies you can only imagine the heartache and pain. What set him off was his mother dying of cancer. In order to spare Mark having to see the decline of his mother, the family sent him to live with Gier, his uncle.