Id. at *3 (emphasis omitted). See also Blake v. State, No. W2015-01423-CCA-R3-PC, 2016 WL 4060696, at *11 (Tenn. Crim. App. July 27, 2016); Motley v. Lester, No. W2014-00355-CCA-R3-HC, 2015 WL 847414, at *2 (Tenn. Crim. App. Jan. 30, 2015); Daniel Lee Draper v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden, No. W2013-01030-CCA-R3-HC, 2014 WL 465723, at *3 (Tenn. Crim. App. Jan. 31, 2014). Contrary to the Petitioner's assertion his life sentence was authorized by Tennessee law in 2011, and it is still authorized by Tennessee law today.

Carney, 2012 WL 5355665, at *3-4. In Draper v. Lindamood, No. W2013-01030-CCA-R3-HC, 2014 WL 465723, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App. Jan. 31, 2014) perm. app. denied (Tenn. June 20, 2014), the petitioner argued that the trial court did not have jurisdiction to sentence him to life with the possibility of parole. The Court of Criminal Appeals quoted Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-35-501(i) and explained: