Gov. Bill Haslam grants full clemency to Cyntoia Brown

[GMDino]

I'm just happy that this woman doesn't have her entire life thrown away ver her horrible choices and her awful start.

I believe this is how the legal system works.

I also have experienced this on a personal level.  Not my child, but a relative who was killed.  It was an accident (allegedly) and I knew the killer too.  He's related to my wife.

Good kid with a bad start and not much of a chance.

In prison he got his GED and learned a work skill.  He's out on probation now and has a chance to be a better person. 

That doesn't take away the pain from the family of the person killed...but keeping him in jail forever would not also.  

Sometimes we have to look at the individual circumstances and see if, as a society, we can try and make it better despite our innate desire to punish completely.

Maybe that's just me...but I see others who agree that the initial sentencing was too harsh for other reasons too.  So maybe it's not just me.