Living With Murder

For this Transom Feature, we bring you our new two-part special, "Living With Murder." It's the story of Kempis Songster, who was given a mandatory life sentence without parole for a crime he committed at 15 years old. He is forty-five now, still incarcerated, but recent Supreme Court rulings are giving him a chance at parole. This story follows him up to the moment of his re-sentencing, and is based on conversations with victims, prosecutors, advocates, politicians, and, mainly, between Kempis, a juvenile lifer about to be released, and Samantha, whose mother was attacked by a juvenile lifer who was released.