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A quest for redemption is unfolding in Washington, D.C. Thanks to forward-looking "Second Chance" legislation, three men | dG1fRDBvc0xzVmdBMUE
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00:01I was sentenced with life without parole.
00:05When they told me I was going to die in prison.
00:11We give out life sentences like it's candy.
00:13I mean, there's hundreds of thousands of people with life sentences.
00:19A 16-year-old kid put in a violent like that,
00:23it is off-the-wall violence.
00:25I mean, stabbings and murders and rape.
00:28I always felt like I would never make it out.
00:31So I had to make a transition within myself.
00:37Brains develop over time, and my goodness, people change.
00:42And our laws help show that possibility to change is real.
00:51Judges are looking at these cases very closely to decide whether or not someone can safely be released.
00:56And my goal is to file it probably tomorrow.
01:00I'm very, very nervous.
01:02I want to convey to the judge my remorse, my rehabilitation, my change.
01:10It's not an automatic get-out-of-jail-free card.
01:12I've been watching my mother crime for almost 26 years.
01:17I don't know how I'm going to tell my mother I got to die.
01:19If we, as a society, want to believe in second chances like we say we do,
01:25I think we need to create that possibility.
01:28When I see my son walk out the door, my heart dropped to my feet.
01:31When I see my son walk out the door, my heart dropped to my feet.
01:46I knew that it was a God.
01:51And God do second chances.
01:53When I see my son walk out the door beside the ellos, thank goodness.
01:54Jesus...
01:55Jesus!
01:57Thank goodness for a small community!
02:01I'm proud to run a vehicle.
02:03I'm thatentalですか for all these years.
02:09IAN.
02:11I may be hoping that only one of my goals will 저희 interests not only me love.
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