Quadruple Murderer Shouldn’t Have Even Been Released…

I won’t post anyone’s Facebook pages from this. The funny thing is, as hated as this blog may be to some “real” news endeavors, they will make it a point to find information on people who are recently murdered, knowing full well that their families will be able to read this.. however, if you’re to post some punk’s Facebook Profile because they are drinking underage you’re a bad person.

I digress, whatever that means, and have to at least touch on this awful mess that happened in Northampton…

There is going to be some awful fallout because it looks like the murderer of four people (who has already been in jail for murder) probably shouldn’t have been out in the first place…

A man accused of brutally slaying four people in Northampton on Saturday was released from state prison in April after failing to complete an anger management program that was a condition of his release in 2006, according to Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole records.

Michael E. Ballard, 36, had been in prison for stabbing an Allentown man to death in December 1991. He pleaded guilty to third-degree homicide and related charges and was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison.

Now, a little more than two months after the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole released Ballard for a second time, he is accused of stabbing four people to death inside of a Northampton home, officials said.

When the parole board released Ballard in April they lauded his behavior in prison, looked favorably on a positive recommendation from prison officials, said he was remorseful for his crime and that he demonstrated motivation for success, records say.

Ballard’s latest review, which was done in December 2009, is similar to his initial assessment the parole board gave him in September 2006, according to records.

However, the parole board in 2006 imposed a special condition that Ballard complete an anger management program that was to continue until parole staff deemed it no longer necessary, records say.

That program was never completed and Ballad’s parole was revoked in June 2008, which sent him back to state prison, according to records and Pennsylvania parole board spokesman Leo Dunn.

While in state prison, Ballard served six months before he could go before the parole board and had an assessment done in November 2008. At that review, the parole board denied Ballard’s parole for a second time, saying that reports indicated he was a risk to the community, records say.

Then, a year later in December 2009, the parole board granted Ballard parole. According to Pennsylvania Department of Corrections records, Ballard was released on April 19 to the Allentown Community Corrections Center, where he was living before Saturday’s incident. Source

Oh man.. .heads are going to roll with this one. Just the thought that this man, who shouldn’t have been released, was released and that DIRECTLY caused the deaths of four people… shhhhhiiiiiitttt that’s just not going to sit well with the public.

Which is now going to bring up the age old debate for the next few months: Should someone ever be given a second chance after they purposefully kill someone?

Or, should we have some better checks and balances?

Thankfully, I don’t have to answer that, but someone’s going to answer for it.