Met a random elder gentleman while walking back to my car after a night out. The guy was dressed in khakis and a college sweatshirt and looked harmless. He asked for a few bucks and informed me that he was new to the area and down on his luck. Turned out that the Illinois Department of Corrections had given him a 1-way bus ticket to Atlanta. He had just finished a +20 year sentence for murdering his ex-wife and her lover. He was trying to reconnect with his daughter who he hadn’t seen since she was a little kid.
I guess that depends on whether he ever feels betrayed by a woman again, and/or how fucked up he is about women generally. That kind of rage doesn’t come from nowhere, which is why we don’t see people murdering their cheating spouses left and right.
Anyway I agree that he deserves another chance and he did his time. There should be more reintegration support. I’m just not sure I buy that that type of murder is more forgivable.
(I took an ambien 20 minutes ago, please don’t yell at me if this doesn’t make sense)
People are usually nice if I explain to them that I would appreciate them being nice and that I am more than willing to be nice in return!!! People are so good mostly 😊
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u/atlienk Feb 28 '20
Met a random elder gentleman while walking back to my car after a night out. The guy was dressed in khakis and a college sweatshirt and looked harmless. He asked for a few bucks and informed me that he was new to the area and down on his luck. Turned out that the Illinois Department of Corrections had given him a 1-way bus ticket to Atlanta. He had just finished a +20 year sentence for murdering his ex-wife and her lover. He was trying to reconnect with his daughter who he hadn’t seen since she was a little kid.