Sara kruzan Kruzan is now 32. She was sentenced to life in prison in 1994. She had no payroll option. Arnold called her life sentence as excessive. She was 11 when Howard molested her and forced her to prostitute herself when she was 13. Her sentence was Life Without Possibility of Parole with a four-year enhancement. Her conviction was Commitment Offense First degree murder (PC 187) with special circumstancesOn March 10, 1994, 16-year-old Sara Kruzan shot and killed her former pimp, 37-year-old George Howard. In response to threats by James Earl Hampton, Ms. Kruzan went to a movie with Mr. Howard. After the movie, the pair went to a hotel. As they prepared to have sexual intercourse, she shot Mr. Howard to death. Ms. Kruzan was convicted of special circumstances first-degree murder (while lying in wait and during a robbery) with a firearm.
She was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus four consecutive years for the use of a firearm. Ms. Kruzan appealed her conviction, but her sentence was upheld. Mr. Howard’s death is tragic, and I do not discount the gravity of the offense. But given Ms. Kruzan’s age at the time of the murder, and considering the significant abuse she suffered at his hands, I believeSara Kruzan has spent more than half her life behind bars for killing the man who raped her, got her addicted to drugs and pimped her out on the street -- all before she turned 17. Today activists are working the phones and all the social networks you can think of to convince outgoing California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to release the 32-year-old Kruzan with time served.
Demi Moore and her husband Ashton Kutcher have thanked Arnold Schwarzenegger for intervening in a notorious murder case to reduce the killer’s sentence.
Sara Kruzan was jailed for life without parole in California in 1994 after she was convicted of murdering her alleged pimp, George Gilbert Howard.Kruzan was a child trafficking victim who was 16 years old at the time of the killing, and Moore joined calls for her to be shown leniency because of her tragic past and young age.Outgoing California Governor Schwarzenegger announced on Sunday he has granted Kruzan clemency and commuted her sentence to 25 years with the possibility of parole – and Moore and Kutcher took to their Twitter.com blogs to praise the decision.Moore writes, “Thank you Schwarzenegger for granting Sara Kruzan clemency!”, and Kutcher adds, “Thank you Arnold, congratulations Sara freedom is yours.”
