Thursday, April 7, 2011

Convicted, Condemned, and Cleared: How an Exonerated Man Helped Abolish the Illinois Death Penalty

Convicted, Condemned, and Cleared:
How an Exonerated Man Helped Abolish the Illinois Death Penalty

Randy Steidl


Tuesday, April 12, 2011
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Maurer School of Law Moot Court Room (room 123)


Randy Steidl, of Witness to Innocence, is one of twenty innocent men sentenced to death and later exonerated by the state of Illinois. It was due to those fundamental miscarriages of justice that Governor Pat Quinn recently signed groundbreaking legislation abolishing the death penalty in Illinois. Mr. Steidl played an active role in the legislative efforts in Illinois.


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