The Saga of Pennsylvania’s “Willie Horton” and the Commutation of Life Sentences in the Commonwealth

In 1994, Reginald McFadden’s sentence of life without the possibility of parole was commuted by the governor of Pennsylvania, and he was shipped to New York to be supervised by a bunch of amateurs. Within roughly 90 days, he murdered two people, raped and kidnapped a third, and possibly murdered a f...

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Publicado: 2020
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