sentenced ake to life for each of the murders and to 200 years each for the shootings of the children. >> but wait a minute. stephen hatch who did not fire a weapon faced execution, but ake, the triggerman, got life. brooks was floored. >> as i heard the decision read, what was going through my mind was that i can just see my parents dying and knowing that they would never -- they would never be fully avenged. that they died, that this person took their life and yet he's going to be allowed to continue living at our expense. >> as brooks saw it, after all this time, all the suffering, his parent, his, his sister's, glen ake had plain cheated the excuser. that day after sentencing, the shellshocked brooks escaped into a hallway followed by sheriff's deputies escorting glen ake back to a prison cell.