Cyntoia Brown, the woman who was convicted of killing a man who solicited her for sex and sentenced to life in prison, is now free.
Brown was granted clemency in January by Bill Haslam, who was then governor of Tennessee, and officially released early Wednesday, according to a press release sent at 3:30 a.m. local time.
"Early this morning offender Cyntoia Denise Brown was released from the Tennessee Prison for Women," the Nashville District Attorney's Office said in a statement. "Per the commutation, Brown has now been released to parole supervision."
Brown was sentenced to life in prison for the 2004 killing of Johnny Allen, a 43-year-old real estate broker she claims solicited her for sex. She was only 14 years old at the time of the murder.