Unseen Bonds: The Struggles and Silent Strengths of Children Growing Up with Fathers on Death Row
RALEIGH, N.C. — When DeAndre Hurst was roughly five years old, he unexpectedly learned about the grim reality of his father’s future. In a sobering conversation, his father, Jason Hurist, who has been on death row for two decades, told him, “I’m never coming home. I killed somebody.” Young DeAndre’s life was thrown into a profound state of confusion and turmoil, one that would steer the course of his formative years and beyond. The knowledge …