Could you ever be friends with someone who you knew served time in prison for committing murder in the first degree?

I can't really see how it would be an issue.

Yes, they have served their time and have surely completed their penance. If I knew them before they were convicted then I would still hold a place for them when they came out of prison.

Yes.

I am friends with someone like that. He's my brother, and he just got out. He has turned his life around, though, and is doing very well. I can't express how important it is to be someone's friend after they come out of the joint...most of their other friends at that point have abandoned them, and they need good friends to keep them from wanting to slip back into their old habits.

it would really depen don the circumstances of the murder and the trial, and on the person's personality. The situation would certainly reduce the likelihood of my becoming friends with them but it certainly wouldn't rule it out. They'd probably still be in prison though... so I'm not really sure how I'd meet them.

never say never, i think it would depend on the person and the circumstances and who they were now. i should not have a problem with them because they have served their time already and were released. so if they are a person that i would spend time with then i guess yes i would.

I don't know. Maybe.

Why not?

Just because they were convicted of 1st degree murder doesn't mean there weren't extenuating circumstances.
If it was a woman who was being beaten mercilessly by her husband, and she finally snapped, then I think I might be able to be friends with her.
Or if it was someone who accidentally killed someone but the Prosecuting Attorney was overzealous, I could probably be friends with them.

But if it were somebody who just wanted to kill another person for the heck of it, then I'd stear WAY clear of them.

Obviously, it would depend on many things.

I am.
He's servng a life sentence.

If they refused to discuss it? Probably not.

I don't know it depends on if i knew this person before.

If i just met someone and they told me they just got out of prison for murder i would probably not become friends with them.

This survey was minimized a bit by qualification suggestions, I'm afraid. I've been reading your answers to surveys and you seem like you really enjoy responding. You apparently put some thought into your answers, then "throw it out there" for all to ponder, which I think is pretty cool.
My first version (or one of the many versions) of this survey stipulated that you worked with this ex-con, that they were currently an upstanding citizen with a full-time job, and they possessed all the qualities of someone who might typically become your "friend". I also said that they had served their full sentence term (no parole) and that the person had made it clear how you two would never discuss the murder in their past.
So...out of curiosity - with all that established - would you befriend this person?

Explained like that I probably would, I don't normaly hold the past against anybody, but some of it just depends on if our personalitys matched too, as far a really hanging out together.

Yes, I would be fine with that if the were nice. History is history. I mean if they had just that minute committed it then I may be dubious. But if they had done time or had treatment and were looking at the reasons then yeah.

I have a more extensive answer but I have a reputation to maintain.

no

Yes, I believe that I could.

I don't really know. I guess it would depend on the circumstances of the murder.