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Governor turns down 5 requests to commute sentences

May 6, 2015 By Dar Danielson

Governor Terry Branstad.

Governor Terry Branstad.

Governor Terry Branstad has turned down the requests of 5 people to have their sentences modified or reduced. The governor denied the request of 3 people to commute their life sentences.

The oldest is 81-year-old Earl Thompson, who is in prison for first-degree murder in a crime committed in 1961 in Dallas County. Sixty-three-year old Kenneth Sheffey is also serving life for first-degree murder committed in Scott County in 1974. Fifty-nine-year-old Randy Schubert is serving life for first-degree kidnapping committed in 1982 in Hancock County.

The other two commutation requests involved men serving 25-year sentences for first-degree robbery in crimes committed in 2003. Forty-eight-year-old Troy Midthus committed his crime in Black Hawk County and 40-year-old Edgar Cardona was sentenced for a crime in Pottawattamie County.

 

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