Johnson, 50, shot and killed Officer D.D. Adams on February 3, 1980. Adams had stopped Johnson for drunk driving and placed her in the back seat of his patrol car. After spending 20 years behind bars, she is now held in a Charlotte halfway house. She says time has rehabilitated her.
"I have been on my knees many nights praying that He would remove their pain, and sometime they would forgive me," she says.
Sandra Adams-Lipshutz, Adams' widow, continues her yearly personal crusade to keep the killer in the state prison system. She says she does not believe in second chances when her husband did not any.
"As a family, we are just pleased that the right decision was made," she says. "It's like I can relax for a little while before we begin again."
TheN.C. Parole Commissionbegan reviewing Johnson's parole in late August. Johnson will be up for parole again in August 2001.
Parole was eliminated under the Structured Sentencing Act, which applies to crimes committed on or after October 1, 1994.
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