WM3-Rehabilitated?

This will not be an attempt to prove innocence or guilt.  My mind is made up don't confuse me with the facts, my seminary prof. use to say.  However, I think I have my facts straight, but again that's not the purpose.  I take issue with one thing that was said on Friday Aug. 19.  The Prosecuting attorney Scott Ellington said, "I hope and pray they have been rehabilitated.  Only time will tell as to whether this was the right decision on my part." That sounds fair enough as your being overcome with emotions whether they be joy or anger.  But as the idea of them being rehabilitated sets in should we be concerned if they are not.  There seems to be only two points to prison perhaps three:  Death for those who are convicted of a serious enough crime, rehabilitation, and probably to the average citizen the knowledge that bad people are locked up away from the rest of society.  When Ellington makes this claim, Its because he knows the fear of the populous,  "Your letting killers walk the streets."  His hope is that the people will be at ease due to the rehabilitation programs of Arkansas Correctional Department, but is there any program in the world that would consider itself helpful to individuals who do not take responsibility for their crime?  Can you get help when those who are trying to help out are constantly told, "I don't need your help".  If Ellington believes what he says, and that is that his opinion is that the WM3 did kill those boys why would he think they were rehabilitated when they are still lying about the original crime.  The question becomes a little more personal when we discovered that Misskelley now lives behind our church with his father.  Many asked me, how will you respond, despite my doubts that he would show up, I did entertain the notion that we would open our arms and extend a warm welcome happy he joined us.  But then the conundrum sets in, what about my girls who are known to hug complete strangers? Do I go for a hug block (does such a move even exist?) or to save my wife from  hitting her head on something hard after passing out. What if one of my girls or my wife went to the restroom and Jessie gets up and heads back towards the foyer.  But ultimately what if Jessie ask me about being saved?  Knowing that one of the key tenants of Christianity is repentance.  I could accept a murder more easily if they said, I'm a murderer and I made a terrible mistake and I deserve death.  In fact that's what entering into Christ Kingdom looks like.  I'm guilty of murdering Jesus, I wish I could say it was a crime of passion, but in all honesty I'm a serial murder, I sometimes plan them out, and other times I let my anger build and explode, but each and every time I've put Jesus on the cross because what I want is my selfish desires, and not his will for my life.  May God grant Damine Echols, Jessie Missekeley Jr., & Jason Baldwin forgiveness whether they murdered three little boys or like the rest of us in someway or in some position murdered the Son of God. May God grant us all repentance that we might have fellowship with the son.