This Is Just Wrong

A triple murderer who was on death roll get's paroled and to what?  Some fame and perhaps fortune.
From San Fran Chronicle: Wearing a glacial-white suit and tie, set off by a blood-orange shirt, the compact, dark-haired vocalist Rick Stevens leaned into "You're Still a Young Man," his signature song as lead vocalist of Tower of Power, when the band burst out of the East Bay funk scene 40 years ago and Stevens had a promising future....
Stevens has been out of circulation for quite a long time. Sentenced to death for his part as triggerman in a 1976 triple slaying, basically a drug deal gone bad, Stevens was paroled six months ago. After 36 years behind bars, he emerged to find the world had changed radically....
But Thursday at Bimbo's 365 Club, when he took the stage at the annual Voices of Latin Rock fundraiser, the song's lyrics collided with his own real-life narrative, and the performance fused into autobiography.
"I'm back once again," he sang, his eyes glistening with tears.
Stevens once saw his life flash before him when he almost drowned as a child, but this was different. Blinded by the spotlights, the 72-year-old vocalist said he could make out only a few faces in the front rows. But he could see all the cell phone cameras going off like miniature fireworks. He could feel the love in the room.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Singer-Rick-Stevens-embraces-2nd-chance-4229673.php#ixzz2JRlKYlBm
This guy should never been taken off death row and certainly not paroled. He killed 3 people, and while they were drug dealers, they were people.  While this thug got to turn his life around, he denied the 3 murdered subjects the chance to do the same.
Welcome to the liberal world of California.