State parole board members think Willie Lee Johnson has probably spent enough time behind bars.

If the name doesn’t ring a bell, that’s not surprising. Johnson, now 59, has been in prison for more than 35 years, and unless the members of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles change their minds, he will walk out of the Macon Transitional Center after April 6.

“I must vehemently oppose this ...