or he could choose to commute her sentence to a shorter term, including time served.

BTW, reading some info on this case, it appears the jury never heard much, if any, of her backstory, the fact that she was being pimped out, that she was being abused, whatever. The prosecutors argued it as a simple case of murder, ignoring all that led up to it, because, you know, black people need to be put in…

Fair enough

Thwt the victim was white is the reason the Gov equivocated; he can’t send the message to his druggy, pervy redneck constituents that he isn’t insuring their safety from teen sex workslers of the dark variety!

Done

Yes. Keep up the pressure. The only reason that the TN Governor is even talking around clemency is because people are talking about this and confronting him with the issue.

Done! thank you!

Uh.  Yeah.  That’s what I said at the beginning of my comment.  The thing about free speech is, it also means people are free to have opinions about the intelligence of things other people say.  

Doesn’t really matter if you believe him or not - he’s allowed to have an opinion on the Israel / Palestinian issue. I can see CNN not being pleased since it complicates his ability to offer perspectives (unless he does think Israel should be gone and that’s the position he would advocate on-air, which he claims not…

Thanks- I was able to email my feelings to the Governor because you provided this. 

Thank you. I want to do something.

Let those who are without sin, etc.

Thank you!  Emailed and shared on every platform that I could find.

Not only does your life have basically no value if you are black, apparently if you are white your life is super important even if you are a perv that is picking up enslaved children to have sex with them.

I still can’t grasp the mindset of evil that goes through one’s life, mind, and body, that looks at this situation and says “She deserves to die in prison” as opposed to “We failed this child from the beginning, where she ended up, at 16, being pimped out for sex, and we need to help her, not punish her”

Michael Harriot, please include this info and encouragement to write in the article!

We may feel high and mighty that we don’t stone a person who was a victim of sexual abuse like some places but at the end of the day the justice system took her life away. Plenty get off lighter for premeditated and unprovoked murder.

Thank you for this.

Write! Write! WRITE! Call! Call! CALL!

I’m glad Temple didn’t do anything. They shouldn’t. Even if he didn’t have tenure. Universities should stand up for the free speech rights of their professors so long as that speech doesn’t break the law. His didn’t.