Mother Teresa Will Appeal to Spare Harris

CALCUTTA —  Mother Teresa said Monday that Jesus would have forgiven convicted killer Robert Alton Harris, who is scheduled to die in California’s gas chamber April 21.

The Nobel Prize-winning nun was scheduled to make an appeal on Harris’ behalf in a telephone conversation Monday night with Gov. Pete Wilson, according to Jesuit seminarian and peace activist John Dear.

Mother Teresa said she has not initiated any telephone calls from India, but she had made her view known when she was in California last year.

“I have already told them what I had to say. I have already told them to do as Jesus would have done,” she told an Associated Press reporter.

Then she smiled and said, “He would have forgiven.”