All you have to do is ask and Jeff Johnson will happily rattle off the things he's most grateful for in life: his wife, Jenny, their one-year-old twins, the new house they just bought in Colorado Springs, their three exuberant dogs and a well-paying job as a sales manager for a steel company
"I think we're doing alright for ourselves," Johnson said.
And last, but clearly not least, the fact that he is no longer serving a life sentence for murder.
Chapter one:
A second chance
"I thought I was going to die in prison," Johnson said.
It certainly seemed like he was going to. He was sentenced to life in prison after a jury convicted him and his 19-year-old codefendant of carjacking and killing a man in an Aurora parking garage in 1994.