Need to stop using people like Brandon Elliot for polticial purposes. Right now, He is the only person I blame. He spent 14 years of his life behind bars and didn’t learn a thing about being a decent human being.
About the only political thing I see in this situation is a call for quick capital punishment. He should have been hanged for murdering his mother 14 years ago.
He was in jail on a “life” sentence, so obviously someone else bears some responsibility for him being free on the streets to commit another crime.
I don’t forgive the parole boards who knowingly release violent, unreformed and unrepentant criminals back into society. Members of the parole board should be forced to live next to the halfway houses where the parolees are released to, then maybe they would think twice about their decisions.