A True Story
TheDeath Penaltyof
Jarred Shaw
From professional basketball
to a fight for freedom.
Chapter 01 — The Game
28
Points
12
Rebounds
10/10
Two-point field goals
A career night.
A life changed forever.
Hours later.
Chapter 02 — The Arrest
Hours later
132 gummies
Jarred went downstairs to retrieve a package containing THC-infused gummies.
Jarred has said the gummies were intended to help him manage symptoms associated with Crohn's disease.
Package pickup
Apartment corridor
Customs inspection
Arrested
Indonesia
A documentary title card. No weapons. No intent to sell. A plant-derived product — and a case that could take his life.
Why?
Why would a professional athlete risk his career?
Chapter 03 — The Pain
This story didn'tbegin with cannabis.
It began with pain.
Jarred was diagnosed with Crohn's disease while playing college basketball.
The chronic inflammatory condition can cause severe digestive symptoms, pain, fatigue and appetite complications.
Jarred has said THC helped him manage symptoms associated with the disease.
Crohn's disease
Chapter 04 — Shawtime
Shawtime
Before the headlines,
there was basketball.
A contact sheet from the years that built him — the gym, the arena, the noise.
Chapter 05 — The Sentence
Life. Or death.
The stakes were real.
Under Indonesia's strict narcotics laws, Jarred initially faced allegations carrying the possibility of life imprisonment or the death penalty.
The case →
26 months.
In prison.
The court ultimately convicted Jarred of possession rather than imposing the trafficking enhancements associated with the most severe penalties. He received a 26-month prison sentence.
The timeline →The legal fight
wasn't his only fight.
Crohn's doesn't stop at the prison gate.
Inside, chronic illness does not pause for a sentence. Reported figures describe significant weight loss during his imprisonment.
Reported figures
The Book
The Book
The Death Penalty
of Jarred Shaw
Not defeated.
Only delayed.
The headlines told the world what happened. This is the story of what it felt like to live through it.
A memoir about chronic illness, a career built in the gym, a case that put a life in the balance, and the long walk back.
Get the book →One game
changed everything.
Still fighting. Still here.
The headlines
told you
what happened.
Now he tells you
what it felt like.
The Death Penalty of Jarred Shaw
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