Convict released on parole for rest of life

Sunday, May 6, 2007

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Shirley Lute on Friday took the last step on a winding legal road as she was released from a state prison in northern Missouri more than 25 years after she was convicted of helping kill the man she said had been abusing her.

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