Brandon Bernard – Kim Kardashian reveals ‘hardest’ final call with death row inmate, 40, who told her ‘fight isn’t over’
KIM Kardashian West revealed on Thursday afternoon that she "lost it" during her final conversation with inmate Brandon Bernard, who was executed in Indiana hours after their conversation.
The lawyer-in-training described the heartbreaking chat as the "hardest call I've ever had," in which Bernard confided that he was offered a sedative to calm his claustrophobia ahead of his execution.
said that the details of her sister's last conversation with Bernard "broke her heart."
"This just breaks my heart," Jenner tweeted.
A source close to the reality star told the new outlet that she was heartbroken for both sides and didn't mean to diminish Bagley's death.
At the time of publication, it was 2:30pm CT as Kim continued Bernard's death row execution countdown on .
"Been crying all morning. Brandon Bernard will be executed in 6 hours," Kim tweeted at 12pm ET.
She vowed to campaign non-stop during the 24 hours ahead of Bernard's scheduled date with death at the US Penitentiary, which has yet to be halted as of 5.30pm ET.
Something special I learned about #BrandonBernard is that in addition to his work with youth, he also really likes to crochet.
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"Brandon Bernard, a 40-year-old father is going to be executed tomorrow by our federal government," Kim wrote.
She later added: "Most of the time executions happen, in our names, without a lot of attention given to them.
"This is unacceptable. For the next 24 hours I will be tweeting about Brandon and his case and why his life should be spared by @realDonaldTrump."
, in 1999.Advocates claimed Bernard was not present when the Bagleys were initially kidnapped and that he didn't know of any intention to kill the couple.
However, earlier this week a judge denied the .
Bernard’s lawyers argued that prosecutors withheld a witness who conveyed their client’s low rank in the gang.
“And the jury recommended a death sentence for Mr. Bernard only where the murder of Mrs. Bagley was attributable, at least in part, to smoke she inhaled from the fire directly set by Mr. Bernard.”
Several high-profile figures called for Bernard’s execution to be stayed.
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Over Thanksgiving weekend, Kim asked her Twitter followers to sign a urging Trump to commute Bernard’s sentence to life in prison.
She tweeted that Bernard was involved in a “terrible crime” but “his role was minor compared to that of the other teens involved, two of whom are home from prison now.”