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 …
Read More »Kodak Black Has Been Released From Prison
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 …
Read More »Jamil Smith: You Can't Kill Your Way to Freedom
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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