I said it made me think differently about his actions not that it excused his actions. Barrow wasn’t exactly an angel before he was sent to prison but he seemed to come out worse than he was when he went in. He was raped for the better part of a year in Eastham prison. There was no privacy at Eastham meaning the guards were aware of what was happening and did nothing. The other prisoners were equally aware of what was happening and some of them ridiculed him for being Big Ed’s prison bitch.
No, none of that excuses the murders that Barrow committed, though, I must admit, I do not consider his killing of Big Ed to have been his first murder. A homicide, sure, but, murder? Nah. That was self-defense pure and simple. I just wonder whether or not the Texas penal system helped create the monster that Barrow became.
Odesio