Kristina Fetters

Kristina Joy Fetters (February 5, 1980 - July 27, 2014) was an Iowa woman who was convicted of the murder of her 73-year-old great-aunt, Arlene Klehm, on October 25, 1994, when she was 14 years old.[1] At age 15, Fetters became the youngest woman in Iowa sentenced to life in prison without parole on December 18, 1995. Following the 2012 Supreme Court decision of Miller v. Alabama, which declared mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders to be unconstitutional, Fetters became the first inmate in Iowa to be re-sentenced in November 2013.[2] The following month, she was recommended for compassionate parole due to a prognosis of inoperable stage-four breast cancer, and she was released to a hospice care center in Des Moines, Iowa in December 2013.[3] She succumbed to her cancer in July 2014, at age 34.[4]

  1. ^ Finney, Daniel P.; Ta, Linh (2014-07-27). "Freed inmate Kristina Fetters, convicted as juvenile, dies". The Des Moines Register. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
  2. ^ "Two Women Previously Sentenced to Life Without Parole in Iowa Obtain Relief". Equal Justice Initiative. 2013-12-16. Archived from the original on 2023-08-11. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
  3. ^ Borreli, Lizette (2013-12-05). "Iowa Inmate Kristina Fetters Granted Parole After Terminal Breast Cancer Diagnosis". Medical Daily. Archived from the original on 2023-01-15. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
  4. ^ Kelley, Matt (2014-07-28). "Woman released from life prison term to hospice dies". Radio Iowa. Archived from the original on 2022-10-02. Retrieved 2014-08-07.