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.