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Tennessee Governor commutes Cyntoia Brown's life sentence for murder

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Cyntoia Brown In one of his last acts as Tennessee governor, Bill Haslam on Monday granted executive clemency to  Cyntoia Brown , commuting her life sentence for murder. Brown,  a victim of child sex trafficking , was sentenced to life for the killing of 43-year-old Johnny Allen in 2004. She was 16 at the time and living with her 24-year-old boyfriend, a pimp known as “Kut Throat” who forced her into prostitution and raped her. Allen solicited her for sex, and she shot him dead at his home, saying she  thought he was reaching for his gun  to kill her, according to court documents. “Cyntoia Brown committed, by her own admission, a horrific crime at the age of 16,” Haslam said in a statement on Monday,  according to the Tennessean . “Yet, imposing a life sentence on a juvenile that would require her to serve at least 51 years before even being eligible for parole consideration is too harsh, especially in light of the extraordinary steps Ms. Brown has taken to rebuild her life.