The article states she was a Buddhist, and her entire family was against her befriending him. He was in jail 22 years from 1996 until 2018. She employed him too and fired him after $10k went missing for  furniture she sold; which appears to be the motive.

This is the danger of radical forgiveness. In Christianity, Jesus is the ideal because it is impossible. A reasonable person does not sell everything they own and give it to the poor, nor is it wise to give money or talk to homeless grifters on the streets of cities. They plea on peoples' sympathy.

Religions create ideals to worship, and believers often don't see their own contradictions. The philosophy of Jesus would say take everyone in, but my sister's church has people they cannot let into their homeless center because they're too dangerous or make no effort to get out of their situations.

The other big leftist myth is that of rehabilitation. Labeling theory says once you're labeled a criminal with a record, it's now difficult to get jobs and therefore you will commit crime again. There is some truth here, but even without the label, I think a lot of these people would commit crimes again. This man committed a double homicide at 17. You think some people would "go and sin no more" after two decades in prison. It's a good thing the drown running from police. He wouldn't have felt any guilt for what he had done. There is no reason for a person like this to live.