Missouri Governor Denies Pardon To Man Serving Life Sentence For Marijuana

In a surprising decision Missouri Governor Jay Nixon said that he would not pardon the well-known case of Jeff Mizanskey, who has been serving a life sentence for marijuana charges.
Nixon did pardon nine other nonviolent offenders last month, but letting the 61-year-old man who was jailed over charges related to a natural plant seemed too much to ask the governor.
 Mizanskey has been locked up for over two decades, serving out a sentence of life without parole at Jefferson City Correctional Center. The law that locked him away after “three strikes” has since been repealed, but the governor would not show the aging man mercy in spite of this fact.
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