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After 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown is sentenced to life in prison, questions about her past, physiology and the law itself call her guilt into question. Watch trailers & learn more.
- 97 min
- A Sentence Too Harsh
- Years’ Worth of Footage
- ‘As Surprised as Everyone Else’
Brown-Long, now 32, served 15 years in a state prison in Tennessee after killing Johnny Allen, a 43-year-old real estate agent from Nashville. In 2004, Allen picked up Brown-Long, agreed to pay her $150 for sex and and took her to his house. (Brown-Long is her married name; at the time of the incident she went by Cyntoia Brown.) Brown-Long, then 16...
Birman builds Murder to Mercy from footage he collected for another film about Brown-Long called Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story, which premiered on PBS’ Independent Lens in 2011. That film follows Brown-Long from the week she was arrested through the next six years of her life. It also delves into her family history. These details are included in ...
In Brown-Long’s recent statement, she said: “While I was still incarcerated, a producer who has old footage of me made a deal with Netflix for an UNAUTHORIZED documentary, set to be released soon. My husband and I were as surprised as everyone else when we first heard the news because we did not participate in any way.” She added that she is workin...
- 2 min
- Mahita Gajanan
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Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story 2020 | Maturity Rating: 12 | 1h 37m | Documentary After 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown is sentenced to life in prison, questions about her past, physiology and the law itself call her guilt into question.
Apr 30, 2020 · Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story’ on Netflix, a Documentary Skimming the Surface of a Complex Case. By John Serba. Published April 30, 2020, 2:30 p.m....
Apr 23, 2020 · Apr 23, 2020 7:47am PT. ‘Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story’: Film Review. A teenage murder case recently relitigated on social media is sympathetically traced in Daniel H. Birman's...
Apr 29, 2020 · Cyntoia Brown-Long, a criminal justice reform advocate who was released from prison last year following the commutation of her life sentence for killing a man, is the subject of Netflix’s...
