Joe Exotic, the subject of the Netflix documentary “Tiger King,” was resentenced Friday to 21 years in prison, reducing his punishment by a year …
Joe Exotic, the subject of the Netflix documentary “Tiger King,” was resentenced Friday to 21 years in prison, reducing his punishment by a year despite his pleas for leniency as he starts treatment for cancer. “Please don’t make me die in prison waiting for a chance to be free,” Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, told a federal judge, reported The Associated Press. Maldonado-Passage in 2019 was convicted in a murder-for-hire case involving animal welfare activist Carole Baskin, who was also featured in the “Tiger King” documentary. He also was convicted of 19 separate wildlife crimes. After his sentencing in early 2020, he claimed that his two murder-for-hire convictions were wrongfully separated and said Baskin was unfairly allowed to attend his trial despite her status as a witness.
