January 12

QUESTION:

Name the ‘outlaw’ singer who was released from prison on this date in 1991 after serving twenty two months of a seven-year sentence for shooting a man in a Hillsboro, Ohio, bar in 1985. (scroll for the answer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANSWER:

Johnny Paycheck. He was pardoned by then Ohio Governor Richard Celeste. Paycheck passed away in February 2003.