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By Victor Omondi Thirty six years ago, a man from Alabama received a life sentence without parole for robbing $50 from a bakery. Alvin Kennard was charged and convicted of first-degree robbery at the age of 22 years in 1983. Now three decades later, he is 58 years old and is finally set to be freed after an order was issued for his release from Donaldson correctional facility in Bessemer. According to reports, three decades ago, the Alabama state law mandated that every fourth offender be sentenced to life in prison. That law, the Habitual Felony Offender Act, was changed to grant judges the option of giving fourth-time offenders a possibility of parole. However, even when the change took place, the law wasn’t made retroactive. This meant that Kennard’s case couldn’t receive an automatic resentencing. Instead, it happened by chance. ....