IT HAD BEEN TEN YEARS SINCE THE JUDGES GAVEL CAME DOWN
AND HE SENTENCED JOHN TO DEATH ROWE, ALL THIS FOR JUST BEING IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME. JOHN HAD GONE TO A CONVINENCE STORE WITH SOME FRIENDS FOR CIGARETTES AND BEFORE HE KNEW IT THERE WERE POLICE CARS SURROUNDING THEIR CAR WITH GUNS DROWN. SEVERAL MONTHS WENT BY BEFORE THE CASE WENT TO TRIAL AND IT GAVE JOHN A LOT OF TIME TO THINK WHAT HAD TAKEN PLACE. HE NEVER MEANT TO BE INVOLVED WITH PEOPLE THAT WOULD
PULL A GUN ON ANOTHER HUMAN BEING FOR JUST THE COST OF A PACK OF SMOKES BUT NOW HERE HE IS AND FOR TEN LONG YEARS HE HAS TRIED TO LIVE SO THAT EVERYONE WOULD SEE THE REAL JOHN, THERE IS NOT MANY DAYS THAT GO BY THAT HE DON’T THINKS OF THAT TERRIBLE DAY AND WHAT HE COULD HAVE DONE TO MAKE HIS WORLD DEFFERNT.JOHN’S LAWYER HAD TRIED FOR YEARS TO GET HIM OUT ON HIS GOOD BEHAVER BUT IT DID NOTHING TO HELP HIM, AND THEN IT HAPPENED. HE RECEIVED A MESSAGE THAT THE GOVERNOR WAS INTERETED IN HIS CASE AND WAS POSSIBLY GOING TO RIGHT A STAY OF EXICUTION FOR JOHN,
ON THE NEXT WEEK HE GOT THE CALL THAT CHANGED HIS LIE, HE WAS A FREE MAN. HE HAD LOST TEN YEARS BUT HE COULD GO HOME AND TRY TO START OVER, HE KNEW BEING BITTER WAS NOT THE WAY TO BE FOR HE WAS WRONG FOR WHAT HE DID AND HE WAS SO THANKFUL TO BE GOING HOME.
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