Greg Ousley Sorry For Killing His Parents

All of the previous examples accommodate for a moral judgment. There is no excuse for allowing those who have ended lives to be free of any punishment, but it is also excessive to fight fire with fire. The more they see they did wrong, the more they would regret committing such crimes. Theoretically speaking, once they leave jail after being punished for more than half a century, they will realize how grave their actions truly were. They would realize how much they missed and how much of their life they cannot receive back. That was the case for Greg Ousley. In “Greg Ousley is sorry for killing his parents. Is that enough?,” Scott Anderson tells us the tale in which Greg Ousley killed both his parents when he was 14 years old. “In early 1994, Greg, then 15, entered the Indiana penitentiary system to begin serving a 60-year sentence” (Greg Ousley is sorry for killing his …show more content…
Is that enough? P.13). By the time he was 33 years old, he had a full epiphany of what he had done and changed his life and mindset immediately. He had completely evaluated who he was and what he planned on doing with the rest of his life. He had been afraid that his family would not accept him as he was healed mentally and emotionally from his loss, but he was relieved that everyone accepted him. He grew out of the little angry boy he was and is now serving his jail time as a respectful model inmate that others see as a model convict. Rather than throwing a life sentence and letting them die in jail, they would learn to punish themselves and turn their behavior around. Juveniles would have hope of living life one day, free of cells and crappy food served to them by mean looking men and women. Hope would give them happiness, and happiness would give them a reason to act properly in order to get their sentence