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William had two siblings: Paul, who was 13 at the time of the murder, and Mary, who was 10. Approximately nine years passed before Kuklin interviewed them: Paul was by then a junior at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Mary was a sophomore at Marymount University, also in Virginia. Both of them sat down together with Kuklin in Mary’s dorm room. William’s parents, Licia Hedia,n a midwife, and Bill Jenkins

“I deserve to be punished, no doubt about it. But, after you’ve been in prison for so long, it ceases to be a punishment. It becomes just a way of life. The first few years, learning to adjust to prison is the punishment. Once you’ve adjusted, it isn’t punishment anymore.

So where’s the punishment then? You not doing nothing but institutionalizing a person.”