SPENCER COUNTY, Ind. (WEHT)- A Spencer County community gathered for a vigil in honor of Stacy Payne in Chrisney tonight, hours before her killer is put to death.

Roy Lee Ward is scheduled to be executed overnight at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, after years of court battles.

"I talked to the grandmother shortly after this happened, and I said, 'How do you deal with this?' She says we forgave him. And I said How did you do that and she said, 'We had to forgive him to move on'" says Pam Sisley.

Pam Sisley knows the Payne family and is one of several people who came to the vigil at Cornerstone Church in Chrisney tonight to support the Payne's.

"It helps us have closure, and it helps us have peace. And we can close this chapter, maybe to a certain degree," says Sisley.

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