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Sioux Falls, South Dakota (AP)
Thirty years after then-17-year-old Tim Caffrey shot his adoptive father to death in their South Dakota home, he is getting a chance at freedom.
Departing Gov. Mike Rounds has commuted Caffrey’s life sentence for manslaughter to 237 years, making him eligible for parole. The Board of Pardons and Paroles could release Caffrey in March, The Argus Leader newspaper reports.
The board in 1991 and 2003 unsuccessfully recommended commutation. Rounds assented last week, three years after the board again suggested he reduce the sentence in the 1981 shooting death of William Caffrey in Martin.
Thirty years after then-17-year-old Tim Caffrey shot his adoptive father to death in their South Dakota home, he is getting a chance at freedom.
Departing Gov. Mike Rounds has commuted Caffrey’s life sentence for manslaughter to 237 years, making him eligible for parole. The Board of Pardons and Paroles could release Caffrey in March, The Argus Leader newspaper reports.
The board in 1991 and 2003 unsuccessfully recommended commutation. Rounds assented last week, three years after the board again suggested he reduce the sentence in the 1981 shooting death of William Caffrey in Martin.
