A woman who was convicted more than three decades ago of fatally shooting her husband, will be eligible for Parole. She had fatally injured her husband because he had physically abused her. Her life sentence is commuted. Hutchinson the Governor announced that his has the intent to make Willie Mae Harris, 72, immediately eligible for parole. This is due to the physical abuse that Harris suffered. Harris was convicted of first-degree fatal injury back in 1985. “She had been a victim of domestic

violence for a long period of time, there’s evidence of that,” Hutchinson said in a speech at the Governor’s Mansion to the Political Animals Club. “She proclaimed her evidence but for a lot of different reasons, I granted clemency to Willie Mae Harris today.” Harris actually admitted to shooting her husband, Clyde Harris. She said that it was an accident related to self-defense. Harris is legally blind. The state Parole Board requested several times over the years that she receive clemency.