Clemency for Cyntoia Brown
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🗓️ 2 August 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming. |
| 0:02.3 | Hiya. |
| 0:02.9 | So, Benny has really blossomed this term. |
| 0:05.6 | You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay. |
| 0:09.6 | Oh, that's not quite what I meant. |
| 0:11.1 | It's free to sell on there? |
| 0:12.3 | Free to sell? |
| 0:13.4 | Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket. |
| 0:16.8 | You sold my guitar? |
| 0:19.9 | Shall we talk about Benny? |
| 0:22.1 | When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay. |
| 0:26.7 | Things people love. T's and C's apply, excludes vehicles. |
| 0:31.0 | Next week, after spending half of her life in prison, a woman named Sintoya Brown is going to walk free. She was incarcerated when she |
| 0:39.6 | was just 16. We told her story back in January. And with Centoya just days away from release, |
| 0:48.4 | I thought it was a good time to play this show for you one more time. |
| 1:01.7 | Back in January, lawmakers in Tennessee gathered in downtown Nashville to make a request. |
| 1:11.9 | 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 |
| 1:15.1 | to grant clemency to a 30-year-old woman who's been in prison nearly half her life. |
| 1:20.2 | Her name is Sintoya Brown. |
| 1:22.5 | It was a horrible crime, but we have to ask ourselves, |
| 1:27.4 | what was a grown man doing in the bed with a 16-year-old |
| 1:31.4 | girl? Still a child. Centoya ended up in prison because as a teenager, she killed a man who paid her |
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