Last week, lawmakers in Tennessee gathered in downtown Nashville to make a request.

And we're here today to appeal to Governor Haslam's heart and to his sense of justice to grant

this was a last-ditch effort to convince the outgoing Republican governor to grant clemency

to a 30-year-old woman who's been in prison nearly half her life.

Her name is Sintoya Brown.

It was a horrible crime, but we have to ask ourselves,

what was a grown man doing into bed with a 16-year-old girl?

Still a child.

Sentoya ended up in prison because as a teenager, she killed a man who paid her $150 for sex.

The police said this was a robbery, a murder.

Sentoya said it was self-defense.

The state representative who held this press conference said it almost didn't matter.

In Centoria's case, she was sentenced to a lifetime in prison.

She's already served almost 15 years in prison.

And to keep her in prison for 51 years is double travesty to a young victim of sexual exploitation.

Clemency was the last option.

The people asking for a shorter sentence didn't seem particularly optimistic.

This press conference ended with a prayer.

Let us bow our heads in prayer.

And so, God, we ask right now for your mercy, for your grace.

God, she can't speak for herself. And so we're speaking. We are speaking for justice, God.

We're speaking for that do-over. We pray this in your name. Amen. Amen. Amen.

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