Would You Attend Your Son’s Execution?

I have never known a mother whose son was executed, much less a mother whose son was executed despite being provably innocent. Though I can’t ask, I have sometimes wondered: Is it typical for a mother to attend her son’s execution? Under such circumstances, would most mothers prefer to be there or would they prefer to be anywhere but there? And what if that execution was as drawn out, as humiliating, and as agonizing as a crucifixion? How could any mother bear to see her son so brutally mis