From my understanding, she didn't give them much choice in the matter.

[Stubborn, remember? He leans his head back into the touch and lets out another sigh, trying to steady himself.

How can he explain?]

-- I want you to know. But nobody -- ever asked these questions, you understand. It never mattered to anyone else.

[Except him. People didn't want to hear you humanize a family they'd condemned to death.]