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Board grants parole to ill inmate
DES MOINES (AP) ? The Iowa Parole Board has granted some freedom to a dying inmate who was 15 when she entered prison.
The Des Moines Register reports the board granted parole Tuesday to 33-year-old Kristina Fetters. She will be released to a hospice facility.
A jury convicted Fetters of first-degree murder in 1995 in the death of her great-aunt, Arlene Klehm. Fetters? attorney says her client has inoperable ...
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Sep. 30, 2018 8:16 pm
DES MOINES (AP) ? The Iowa Parole Board has granted some freedom to a dying inmate who was 15 when she entered prison.
The Des Moines Register reports the board granted parole Tuesday to 33-year-old Kristina Fetters. She will be released to a hospice facility.
A jury convicted Fetters of first-degree murder in 1995 in the death of her great-aunt, Arlene Klehm. Fetters? attorney says her client has inoperable Stage 4 breast cancer and wants to die outside prison walls.
A Polk County judge recently resentenced Fetters and recommended parole. The board?s decision means Fetters is the first Iowa inmate sentenced to life in prison as a juvenile to be released after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
The high court said life sentences without parole are unconstitutional for juveniles.
