The governor of Tennessee announced Monday that he has granted clemency to Cyntoia Brown, who was sentenced to life in prison for the 2004 murder of a 43-year-old man who had solicited her for sex when she was 16 years old. In December, after the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that …
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Kodak Black, the emerging Florida rapper whose rise in hip-hop was put on hold due to a prison sentence, is now a free man after being released from Broward County jail early Saturday morning. The 21-year-old rapper, born Dieuson Octave, served seven months in a Florida jail after authorities raided …
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Freedom and safety are both fragile, but it is curious to see how often they are treated as if one will break the other. The zero-sum goes like this: The more freedom we have, the more risk that we incur. To be safe, we have to curtail liberties. But what …
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