The Louisiana Supreme Court last week denied a request to review a LIFE SENTENCE handed down to Fair Wayne Bryant, a man convicted to LIFE in prison for trying to steal hedge clippers from a carport storage room in Caddo Parish, LA, in 1997.

In a lone dissent, Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson wrote that Bryant’s “life sentence for a failed attempt to steal a set of hedge clippers is grossly out of proportion to the crime and serves no legitimate penal purpose.”

Mr. Bryant was given a punishment that was extreme, excessive, and racially biased. He has already had 23 years of his life destroyed behind bars. Mr. Bryant deserves to be released from prison at once!