Jason Carr, a convicted murderer who spent his entire adult life in Missouri prisons has been granted parole and a release date next year. For Carr 52, that means leaving prison 36 years after a Wright County jury found him guilty of killing his brother, stepmother and stepsister in 1983.
The parole board's decision comes after more than six years of work by Carr's team of public defenders, who based their arguments on a U.S. Supreme Court case that forbade courts from giving juveniles mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole.