Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, a colorado truck driver who was sentenced to 110 years in prison after a semitrailer he was driving crashed into 2 cars and three other semitrailers, which killed four and injured others.

He had testified in court that the brakes on his vehicle had failed which caused the incident to happen.

After 5 million people in change.org signed the petition asking his sentence to be lowered and truck drivers across the country refuse to drive through the state, Colorado governor Jared Polis reduced the sentence of truck driver Aguilera-Mederos to 10 years prison term.

In his commutation letter signed on Thursday, the governor said that the 26-year-old driver would be eligible for parole in five years.

Aguilera-Mederos was serving a 110-year sentence on four counts of vehicular homicide and 19 other changes according to Colorado law. 

“While you are not blameless, your sentence is disproportionate compared with many other inmates in our criminal justice system who committed intentional, premeditated, or violent crimes,” Polis wrote.

“Your highly unusual sentence highlights the lack of uniformity between sentences for similarly situated crimes, which is particularly true when individuals are charged with offenses that require mandatory minimum sentences.”

“This case will hopefully spur an important conversation about sentencing laws, but any subsequent changes to the law would not retroactively impact your sentence, which is why I am granting you this limited commutation,” he said