Emphasis Preaching Journal

Cardinal John Heenan, of London, in his autobiography tells of Joseph Brady who stabbed to death Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke. Brady was caught and sentenced to death. He was asked to forgive the one who had informed the police, but he refused to do so. The prison chaplain, and others, kept urging him to make a statement of forgiveness before his death but they could not persuade him.