Jonathan Hirsch
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1,168 appearances
9 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 5 Jun
Jonathan Hirsch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like, do you believe that justice was served here?
Would you have done the same thing as Kent?
There's so many questions.
Yes.
So Bart leaves death row for this maximum security unit, and he begins to serve his life without parole.
He starts to study.
He's writing a lot.
He continues to express remorse.
He was a very messed up young man, he says, and deserves punishment.
Yeah.
And Kent continues to visit his son and speak publicly about, you know, forgiveness and all of that.
And he's, you know, says that like arguing for sparing Bart's life is a better reflection of his and Tricia's values than the execution ever would have been.
So Kent goes on to write a book about this, which we've been talking about before, Murder by Family.
It's an incredible read and I would encourage all of y'all to take a look at it.
Something that's sort of funny about Kent is like in the book, he's also weaving in all of these biblical stories and metaphors.
And one of them that sort of stuck out to me that seemed to be like resonant for him was the story of Absalom.
Absalom was the son of the king of
david in the bible and he had um apparently like organized a rebellion against his father um but he like failed and um ultimately died and in a way kent saw his son as this sort of rebellious figure who was like misguided in his rebellion
And so it just like reinforces as you're reading and hearing about this that Kent is kind of this armchair philosopher of his own life and, you know, quite thoughtful.
And so like looking at this story, you know, the last image of this is not the sort of cruel justice that comes with the lethal injection of Bart, but it's actually the story of a father and son finding a way to restore their own relationship and life while their son lives a life of repentance for what he had done.
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