This isn’t the only case though showing his poor judgment. Other felons he thought found Jesus got out and went on to rape and murder again. This case highlights the problem of the broken “justice” system.
Guarantee there's far less oversight regarding who gets paroled than who gets pardoned, or has a sentence commuted.
We don't have parole around here so we know that if we serve on a jury and send a guy to jail (or to the gurney ~ lot of that in fact ~ our juries love them gurnies) he's going to go there for the stated sentence.
That's really the only way.