Murder to Mercy - The Cyntoia Brown Story (2020)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 1H 36M
Director : Daniel H. Birman
Synopsis
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.
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