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| Texan inmate’s sentence commuted after student’s help |
| By abqjournal.com- Sarah Mervosh |
| Published: 08/22/2016 |
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DALLAS — Sharanda Jones expected to die in prison. She had been caught as the go-between in a cocaine operation in Texas. And although she was a first-time, nonviolent offender, she had been sentenced to life in prison. No possibility of parole. “It was like a death sentence,” she told The Dallas Morning New. A Southern Methodist University law student who came across her case while researching a paper thought the sentence seemed Draconian. So did President Barack Obama. He commuted Jones’ sentence, part of efforts to make clemency a key part of his legacy. Read More. |
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