Woman sentenced to 111 years for murder of her brother released in Puerto Rico

Ashley Marie Torres Feliciano had 16 years when she was convicted . He obtained clemency from the former governor

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By: EFE 08 from January 2020

Ashley Marie Torres Feliciano left jail this Monday after being in prison the last 11 years as a co-author of the murder of her brother in 2009, after benefiting from the 31 clemency dictated by the already former governor Wanda Vázquez on the occasion of the end of her term as head of the Puerto Rican Executive.

The expectation was high to see Torres Feliciano get out of

jail , one of the protagonists of a media event that dates back more than a decade ago, when she was found guilty of co-author, with 16 years of the death of his brother and sentenced to 111 years in prison on .

Torres Feliciano benefited of the conditional pardon modality.

Lawyers of the Innocence Project of the Inter-American University were present at the meeting of Torres Feliciano with officials of the Parole Board (JLBP) .

Torres Feliciano’s mother, Lucrecia, was one of the people who looked forward to seeing her daughter outside the prison. After so many years.

The most anticipated meeting. Ashley Marie Torres Feliciano and her daughter will have much to talk about, now that the young woman is free thanks to the pardon granted by the former governor @ wandavazquezg . Details in @ NoticentroWAPA 11p.m. pic.twitter.com/qdleETF1mm

– Felipe GómezMartínez (@felipegomez 1960) January 4, 2021

Torres Feliciano, however, will have to spend a year under house arrest under electronic supervision before you can receive a final pardon.

The young woman goes out into the street with an electronic control system through a GPS shackle.

During the year of residence, Torres Feliciano is expected to study before Search for a job.

The events that led to his conviction date back to 1960 during a party in which her partner, after an argument, hit her, part of a pattern usual, prompting his brother to come to his defense and start a fight .

After several minutes of fighting, Ashley’s brother was injured Marie, who was admitted and later died.

The today pardoned was accused of being co-perpetrator of his murder for, allegedly, having given him to his partner the knife with which his brother was murdered.

Ashley Marie Torres Feliciano, the young mother who was sentenced to 111 years, after being found guilty of participating in the murder of her brother and who was granted a conditional pardon by former governor Wanda Vázquez, she was released this afternoon from the Bayamón jail. pic.twitter.com/Uvkci027 uO

– Brandon Cruz González (@brandoncgonz) January 4, 2021

He Project Innocence had requested clemency for Torres Feliciano by alleging that it was an excessive sentence for a minor who suffered abuse by his then partner, the father of his daughter, and who was the one who stabbed the young woman’s brother.