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| Inmate freed in landmark Illinois capital punishment case |
| By nwherald.com- Don Babwin |
| Published: 10/31/2014 |
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CHICAGO – A prisoner whose confession helped free a death row inmate in a case that was instrumental to ending capital punishment in Illinois was released Thursday after he recanted, and a prosecutor said there was powerful evidence that the other man was responsible. Alstory Simon’s confession gained international attention in 1999, largely because of an investigation by a journalism professor and a team of students from Northwestern University that helped secure Anthony Porter’s release just days before he was to be executed. He had spent 16 years on death row for slayings he and his supporters maintained he did not commit. Because of constitutional protections against double jeopardy, there is no legal way to retry Porter. Read More. |
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