Recently, the application of Rod Ferrell, a 41-year-old American man, for commutation was rejected again.
He once again appeared in front of the media camera, tearfully telling the story that had remained unchanged for decades:
A boy who inherited the family's "vampire" tradition from an early age, because of his youth and ignorance, firmly believes that he is the "vampire king" who has survived for 500 years.
He slept in the cemetery, drank human blood, and eventually went astray and killed a couple...
The boy was Ferrell himself, the youngest death row inmate in Florida history, but by telling this story, he repeatedly received commutations, from death to indefinite, and from indefinite to 40 years.
Today, he still strives to apply every year, hoping to get out of prison on parole and completely gain personal freedom...
From the "Vampire King" to the smallest death row inmate in Florida, Ferrell's growth is a process of complete depravity that follows the strange hobbies of the elders.
Ferrell was born in 1980 in a single-parent family in Kentucky, where his mother gave birth to him at the age of sixteen, but was ruthlessly abandoned by her husband, and the childhood ferrell hardly met her father several times.
Her mother was grumpy and moody, and as a child Ferrell wrote in her diary:
"She was a monster when she was angry, but I still love her."
In addition to her grumpy temper, her mother has some lesser-known quirks, and she inherits the family's fanaticism for vampire culture from her father, immersing herself in the atmosphere of dark culture all day long:
I like to wear Gothic style costumes on weekdays, and occasionally try to drink some blood...
The mother was not only keen on her own pursuit of vampire culture, but also passed on such a hobby to her son Ferrell.
Slightly older, Ferrell thoroughly brainwashed his mother and obsessed with vampire culture, watched almost all books and movies about vampires, played vampire-themed video games, dressed himself in a gothic outfit, and found opportunities to drink human blood.
Even more outrageous, Ferrell also often lets people who look at each other drink their own blood in order to "transform" each other into vampires...
For this kind of behavior, the mother looks at it in her eyes, and instead of stopping it in time, she is proud of her son's "promotion" of family culture.
Unbeknownst to Mother, Ferrell's fanaticism with vampire culture had reached a distorted point by this time.
He began to have a beastly penchant for blood, and on weekdays, if he couldn't find a "blood friend" who shared blood, he would cut his body and bleed it to drink.
In addition to some bloodlust, Ferrell was fascinated by drugs and promiscuity, listened to all kinds of dark and terrifying music, and ran to the cemetery in the middle of the night to hold various ceremonies, but he accepted all the most morbid and terrible things in vampire culture.
Over time, Ferrell has evolved into a more fanatical "vampire" than his mother, with various witchcraft apparatus in his bedroom, Satan's version of the Dark Bible on the cabinet, and an upside-down cross hanging on the wall...
In the eyes of the mother, the son is just a true love fan of vampire culture,
And in Ferrell's own view, he is the vampire himself:
Only 15 years old ferrell, completely addicted to the identity of a vampire can not extricate himself, he firmly believes that he is a vampire king vesago (from the vampire game character) who has survived for 500 years, firmly believes that he is immortal, his mission is to bring more vampires to the world...
Although Ferrell is not very old, he has many followers, and many of the "vampires" who have been "transformed" by him have become his followers, joining the "vampire tribe" he founded.
Everyone formed a loose organization, often moving in the cemetery at night, drinking human blood, taking drugs, promiscuous sex, engaging in all kinds of strange rituals...
If you are just too addicted to dark culture, it will be detrimental to your physical and mental health.
However, the terrible thing is that Ferrell intends to be a "vampire king" and mutilate the humans who stand in his way in the way of vampires...
After a long period of various dark rituals, Ferrell and his followers were depressed to find that:
Not enough human blood...
In order to get fresh human blood, Ferrell decided to take his followers outside to find the "blood source".
Ferrell and three believers drove from Kentucky all the way southeast to a coastal city in Florida.
Here, Ferrell meets a pen pal who had planned to join their "vampire tribe" early on, a 15-year-old girl Heather, who tells Ferrell in a serious way that it is easy to want fresh human blood, just kill her parents...
Hearing this, Ferrell, who thought he had fallen and evil, was also taken aback, and after careful inquiry, he learned:
Heather claims to have been abused by her father, and her mother ignores this matter, so she holds a grudge and decides to join the "Vampire Tribe", which completely ends up with her parents.
Heather's parents
Ferrell thought about it for a moment and quickly agreed.
In his view, "upholding justice" for his followers and avenging snow and hatred is the unshirkable duty of his "vampire king"...
In this way, Ferrell and the three believers and Heather discussed the "Eradication of Parents Plan", and in the evening, Heather secretly left a door for Ferrell and the other four.
Ferrell and the others slipped out of the garage, and before they could do so, Ferrell finally realized that he was a human teenager rather than a powerful vampire, and he estimated that he would have to kill two adults, and his physique might be a little insufficient.
So I searched the garage and finally found the weapon that weighed my hand, the crowbar.
Ferrell and the three devotees then walked through the living room and saw Heather's father snoozing on the couch.
Ferrell couldn't help but say anything, and went up and swung his crowbar at Heather's father's head, and the blood quickly splashed to the ground.
However, Ferrell did not have the slightest intention of stopping, and did not know how many times it was slammed, heather's father's head was almost completely broken, the whole person was out of breath, and the exhausted ferrell stopped.
At this moment, Heather's mother just walked in from outside with coffee, and the scene in front of her made her stand on the spot, killing the red-eyed Ferrell without hesitation, quickly rushed up and knocked down Heather's mother with a stick, and slammed her head with the same technique, until she also fell in a pool of blood...
After killing Heather's parents, Ferrell was a little weak-hearted, but he didn't forget his original purpose - to collect "fresh human blood", he and a few believers and Heather opened the utensils, did a "dark ritual", and then went upstairs to steal some valuable things from the family.
In the end, the five people fled the scene together, and the whole process of the massacre was carried out by Ferrell alone, and the believers were basically stunned, and no one came to help.
Shortly after the five people fled the scene, Heather's sister returned home and witnessed the tragic death of her parents, and she quickly called the police.
The police agents rushed to the scene and were stunned by the horror movie-like scene in front of them, they could not have dreamed that such a crime was committed by a 15-year-old middle school second-sick teenager...
Although the case is bloody, the facts are not complicated.
After the investigation was launched, the missing heather naturally became the focus of the agents' pursuit. Heather was confronted by heather, who finally confessed the fact that she had commissioned the Vampire Sect Leader Ferrell to kill her biological parents.
Five days after the murder, Ferrell and five others were arrested.
During the trial, Ferrell was still immersed in the second illusion that he was a vampire, not only arrogant, but also doing all kinds of strange actions, making a scared expression at the camera.
The performance of all this, however, came to an abrupt end after the court handed down Ferrell's death sentence.
At the moment of the death sentence, Ferrell finally changed his attitude, and he seemed to wake up:
He is not an immortal vampire, but an ordinary human who is about to be executed...
Ferrell seems to have grown up overnight, he has thrown away his crazy fascination with vampire culture, and began to deeply reflect on the various bad deeds since childhood.
He also wrote a long memoir and explained the mental journey along the way. Of course, he also actively encouraged lawyers to lobby, just to escape death.
Ferrell's efforts paid off, and at the age of 16, he was sentenced to life in prison by a Florida court, which saved his life, but in the verdict, the judge specifically emphasized that parole could not be released.
However, the life sentence did not satisfy Ferrell, and in the nearly decade since, he has transformed himself from a "vampire killer" to a reflector on adolescent education.
Not only did he often give interviews to the media, but he also worked with his mother to write about the mistakes and misguided paths of his adolescent education.
In 2018, after more than a decade of "hard work" and perseverance in appealing, Ferrell was finally sentenced to 40 years in prison, but still not parole.
Today, in front of the camera and in front of the public, Ferrell has completely transformed into a "confessor" who has completely changed his mind and reflected on past crimes.
As in the past, Ferrell still applied every year, hoping to be released on parole and freely out of prison, only to be rejected year after year.
The judge before the case insisted that:
Ferrell didn't really reflect, his inner life was already decayed, and no matter how sincerely repentant he appeared, he didn't deserve to be set free again.
In the judge's opinion, Ferrell should have died in prison.
Today, 41-year-old Ferrell is still working to get parole, telling the public over and over again about how an ignorant teenager degenerated into a "vampire killer"...
However, he seems to have overlooked one fact:
When he was 15 years old, he took two living lives...