'Jenny Jones Murderer' Set to Walk Free for Premeditated Murder of Gay Man

Disgusted to read in the Daily News that the Michigan man who shot and killed his best friend after the pal revealed on a TV show that he had a crush on him is expected to be released from prison.

Jonathan Schmitz, dubbed the "Jenny Jones" killer, was sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison for the 1995 murder of Scott Amedure. Schmitz, 47, was granted parole in March and will be released from the Parnall Correctional Institution next week, the Detroit Free Press reports. A specific release date has not been revealed. Schmitz was 24 when he appeared on "The Jenny Jones Show," for an episode titled "Same-Sex Secret Crushes." Amedure, 32, was on the show to tell Schmitz that he liked him. Schmitz did not know what producers were up to and believed his secret crush was a woman. Three days after the show taped, Schmitz fatally shot Amedure in his Lake Orion home. Schmitz turned himself in, telling authorities that he had been embarrassed on national television, the outlet reports. Producers on the daytime talk show decided not to air the episode following the crime, but a clip showing Amedure's confession played on news shows.

What makes this so sickening is that Schmitz was only charged with SECOND-degree murder -- his first conviction was actually overturned but a second jury convicted him of second-degree murder again -- despite the fact that he drove to a store to purchase a shotgun, drove to another for ammunition, and then drove to Amedure's home -- nearly an hour away -- before firing the fatal shots. If that doesn't demonstrate premeditation, what does?

Read the harrowing details of the execution of Scott Amedure HERE.

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