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Because they were scared of me and they werent my friends. i just walked away from people and started doing my own time. and then i started researching and reading. i read the word. when i get up in the morning, i put my feet on the floor here, i talk to him in prayer. and so when i leave the door, i just focus on what i can do with other people. >> robb is a chaplains aide. he attends services as often as five days a week. changed man or not, officers must assume any inmate has the potential of...

Grown men at that time who were enemies. the attention i got from family was only when i did something mean and violent, which showed me those were the right things to do. >> good job, good job. >> thank you. i appreciate your sharing -- >> robb is normally secretive. opening up about his past is a big step. >> i think that this was kind of a new experience for him, to be able to talk openly and feel safe in doing that. theres a little more work for him in not compartmentalizing it, sitting with...

Then after i killed him, i didnt really care. >> what were his last words? >> finish me. >> john robb was sentenced to 27 years to life for first degree murder. nearly 30 years later, he is still coming to terms with the pain his violent crime has caused. >> sometimes when we think about things, we come back to the reality of the crime. and it takes time because your mind wants to put certain things away. i never really thought the ramifications and all the victims involved. then when i finally ...

Robb didnt ignore. >> he was angry. and then when he laughed, he says, "well, i know where your sister lives." and later, the final moments of robbs brutal crimes are revealed. >> i was so angry at him, at the whole situation. and i says, "im the last living face youre ever going to see. see what you got me into now?" and then i killed him. this ones for all us lawn smiths. grass gurus. doers. heres to more saturdays in the sun. and budgets better spent. heres to turning rookies into experts, ...

Had resigned himself to a life of confinement. but salvation came in the form of a visitor. >> i was in north block in san quentin. i was in confinement. and i had been in that for a number of years. and i had a visit four different times from the same man. he first came to talk to me about jesus and i didnt want to hear it. i started listening to him, cause i figured if i listened to him, hed probably leave me alone. well, as i listened to him, it touched my heart. and ive been on a journey sin...

We cannot do it again. once you know its wrong, you have to stop. >> praise god. [ applause ] >> i just shared >> i just shared what was going on with me. im still in the process of rewriting the script on what i should be doing and not falling back on my past. fortunately, i came to prison so i could stop and i could figure it out, what life was all about, and not get killed before that. >> the time has come for robb to stand before the members of his therapy group. in tomorrows session, he wil...

>> in todays therapy session, robb is hoping to understand the anger that fueled his youth. >> for a lot of the guys that are in there, its not just one crime. you know, theyve been in trouble since they were 5, you know, and done numerous things that werent okay. and its important, i think, that when you start really acknowledging the pain of what youve caused that you acknowledge all of the pain that you have caused. >> now robb has to go back to when the violence began and talk about the fath...

Romney in illinois. msnbcs alex wagoner will have full coverage at k after months of intense peer therapy, inmate john robb is coming to terms with the brutal murder he committed. >> i could have stopped but i didnt. i chose not to. when it was going on, i didnt think that i had any other choices and thats asinine just thinking of that, because there

Conversation in the car, that started the falling out between skip and myself. >> weeks later, robb says he and his accomplice had a chance encounter with skip. robb took the opportunity to end their relationship for good. >> this is what happened, my -- the way i remember what happened. i saw skip on the floor with blood on his face, and then brian was leaning over skip with a piece of pipe in his hand. brians kind of -- you know, id

Later. im not even the same person anymore. >> but robbs anger and violent behavior didnt end with that crime. he says he spent his first years behind bars segregated from the rest of the prison population. >> i had reached a point in san quentin prison where i wasnt allowed to be with the general population or anybody because i was vicious and angry and mean. i used to pace back and forth for hours, days, years. i had a little visit from the warden of san quentin. and he told me a story about, ...