A man who has spent his adult life in prison for killing a Halifax-area taxi driver 19 years ago has been granted full parole.

Garmen Davison Smith was convicted of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Kenneth James Purcell in his cab on Christmas Day 2005 in Dartmouth, N.S.

Smith was just shy of his 18th birthday when he killed the 62-year-old Purcell. In 2007, he was sentenced as an adult to life in prison with no chance of parole for seven years, a decision he unsuccessfully appealed.…