Ahead of Charlie Kirk‘s funeral today, his wife Erika Kirk made a major revelation that she would not seek the death penalty for her husband’s killer. In an interview with the New York Times, Erika said many people are asking her the same question. “I’ll be honest. I told our lawyer, I want the government to decide this,” Erika said. “I do not want that man’s blood on my ledger. Because when I get to heaven, and Jesus is like: ‘Uh, eye for an eye? Is that how we do it?’ And that keeps me from being in heaven, from being with Charlie?” Erika said. Erika lost her husband on September 10 as a gunman, suspected to be Tyler Roboinson with hatred for Charlie — killed Charlie with one shot.Erika remembered how Charlie was too excited to sleep on what turned out to be the last night. “He got up and I could hear him eating something in the kitchen. He’d been waiting all summer to begin touring.” The visits to college campuses, she said, “were like an Olympic event for him. He trained for them. He had whiteboard sessions for hours. Mock debates. He was just so excited.”Cut to Kirk on his deathbed and Erika said Charlie Kirk had a Mona Lisa-like half smile. “His eyes were semi-open. And he had this knowing, Mona Lisa-like half-smile. Like he’d died happy. Like Jesus rescued him. The bullet came, he blinked, and he was in heaven.”

Charlie Kirk refused to wear a bulletproof vest

Erika revealed that Charlie had received numerous death threats over the past year and had been traveling with a security team for months. She implored him to start wearing a bulletproof vest while his team also asked him to speak behind bulletproof glass. Charlie refused and said he was confident in his team and that there would be additional security at the Utah event.