Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has quietly ended a fast-track clemency process for drug-free school zone offenders who were serving outdated sentences. Lee announced the initiative in 2021, after the Tennessee Legislature passed reforms to the state’s harsh drug-free school zone laws. But those reforms were not retractive, leaving more than 300 people serving sentences […]
Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has quietly ended a fast-track clemency process for drug-free school zone offenders who were serving outdated sentences. Lee announced the initiative in 2021, after the Tennessee Legislature passed reforms to the state’s harsh drug-free school zone laws. But those reforms were initially not made retractive, leaving more than 300 people […]
A federal indictment unsealed this week charges two men, Antonio Venti and Michael Kuilan, with supplying the drugs that killed transgender activist Cecilia Gentili. Among other things, Venti and Kuilan are accused of causing Gentili’s death by distributing a mixture of heroin and fentanyl, a felony punishable by a mandatory minimum of 20 years in […]