I've been to his website. Although he has apologized for the creation of the Crips, he has not apologized for the murders for which he was imprisoned.
Every law student and social scientist knows that the rehabilitative and deterrent functions of judicial punishment are importance. But equally important, and perhaps of greater importance, is the need for society's retribution to validate the recognition that an orderly people who have signed on to the social contract and democratic self-government must exercise their right and duty of self protection from predators. It is the latter that governs my personal view that the judicial sentence in this case be carried out. It shows that rehabilitation is possible, and in the proper case, may result in leniency. Here, the deterrent and retributive aspects are properly served. The governor should reject the pleas that, although not unreasonable in the proper case, are not applicable in this case.