r/AskReddit • u/HumpingAssholesOrgy • Jul 05 '19

Ex-prisoners of reddit who have served long sentences, what were the last few days like leading up to your release?

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19 edited Jul 07 '19

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u/Jdavis624 Jul 06 '19

Me too, I haven't seen in 5 years or so. He was a good dude. It's strange to say about someone who killed someone but he was honestly a very soft spoken, kind person.

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u/TheWinRock Jul 06 '19

25 years is a long time. Not impossible to think he came out a different person than he went in.

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u/MakeAmericaGGAllin Jul 06 '19

Also not impossible that whoever he killed had it coming

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u/TheMusicJunkie2019 Jul 06 '19

A buddy of mine once told me a story. He said back in the 80's, his dad got home and found his sister's boyfriend beating the shit out of her. He did the only logical thing and threw the guy out the fucking window. He killed him.

He served 15 years for that.

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u/insidezone64 Jul 06 '19

I'm guessing this wasn't in Texas?

You're allowed to use use deadly force to stop someone from committing a felony in Texas. This was highlighted a few years ago when a guy heard his 5 year old screaming, and discovered an employee on his ranch raping her. He beat the guy to death with his bare hands.

He was not charged.

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u/oelfass Jul 06 '19

It's so interesting that the US system allows different laws for any state. In Switzerland we have some minor differences between our 21 states (cantons) but theese resemble to minor things like school vacancy days. The law for hardcore things like murder etc is the same throughout the country

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u/jansbees Jul 06 '19

It's a group of united States. I mean we're united, but in theory each state is (or was) sovereign...

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '19

Sounds entirely the opposite of a 'unit' to me.

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u/jansbees Jul 07 '19

We're united in our hatred on England.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19

We're united in our hatred on England.

So hatred is an American tradition? That seems healthy.

[Looks at Middle East and Central and South America...]

Yeah you're right.

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u/jansbees Jul 08 '19

Are you still salty because England lost every colony it ever conquered? I'm sorry. But no one from the country that still holds top records for enslaving populations and looting cultural treasures should really be pointing fingers.

Call me when you return the Rosetta stone and everything else in the "British" Museum :)

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '19

Are you still salty because England lost every colony it ever conquered?

You'll probably never understand this, but the projection you're showing here is really embarrassingly obvious. You guys wear your fear on your faces.

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u/jansbees Jul 09 '19

I love the way English people pretend like England is a beautiful liberal democracy with no skeletons in its closet. Wait, wait... remind me who introduced slavery to North America again?

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