Florida man serving life sentence for murder freed after 20 years

A man serving who was sentenced to life in prison as a teenager is now a free man after 20 years.A judge sentenced Edward Francis on Friday to time served for the 1996 murder plus five years probation.Francis, 37, told the judge he believed that if you commit a crime, you deserve to be punished for it. He had previously written a detailed letter to prosecutors describing not only his involvement in the 1996 shooting of a fellow gang member, but other crimes that Orange-Osceola State Attorney Jef