is he gonna check???
God knows, I’m still learning, still discovering, still finding my way through the mess of it all.
Literally just romanticize your own life. What’s stopping you. Who will care. Commit to enjoying things.
Tennessee governor Bill Haslam granted executive clemency on Monday to Cyntoia Brown, who is in prison for fatally shooting a man who was paying her for sex when she was 16.
Haslam is commuting Brown’s sentence of life behind bars. She will be released to parole supervision on August 7 after serving 15 years.
“This decision comes after careful consideration of what is a tragic and complex case,” Haslam said in a statement. "Cyntoia Brown committed, by her own admission, a horrific crime at the age of 16. Yet, imposing a life sentence on a juvenile that would require her to serve at least 51 years before even being eligible for parole consideration is too harsh, especially in light of the extraordinary steps Ms. Brown has taken to rebuild her life. Transformation should be accompanied by hope. So, I am commuting Ms. Brown’s sentence, subject to certain conditions.”
Brown, a teenage sex trafficking victim, was sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder in Tennessee in 2004 after she fatally shot 43-year-old Johnny Mitchell Allen.
Allen had picked up Brown on the side of the road for sex and took her back to his home. Brown said she shot him because she feared for her life.
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