reasontobelieve:

I have two children. Boys. They have their entire lives ahead of them. Just like my friend Quentin Fields once did, like Xavier Daniels once did. I hope that when they’re adults they’ll believe in redemption and rehabilitation. I hope they’ll believe in forgiveness, because I do. I just don’t believe in it for Xavier Daniels. I don’t believe he’s changed, I don’t believe he’s sorry, and I don’t believe he’s paid for his crimes. He is an angry, hateful, violent human being, and I’m sorry, but it would be a mistake to release him. I won’t feel safe and neither should any of you. Can he change? I hope so. But has he? No, I don’t think he has, and I don’t think he will.