In June, 1980, a Lake County, Illinois jury sentenced a truck driver named Robert M. Kubat, who had been in and out of prison for years, to death after convicting him of the murder of Lydia C. Hyde, 63.
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No Hispanic judges chosen in associate judge election
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After criticisms about diversity among the associate judges last year, the Circuit Court of Cook County elected several people of color to the bench, but no Hispanic finalists made the cut.
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Diversity at stake in competitive Illinois Supreme Court race
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The race is on for the only Illinois Supreme Court seat ever held by a person of color.
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Illinois Dept. of Corrections announces new social media policy after employees mocked transgender prisoners online
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Following Injustice Watch reporting last month about more than two dozen state correctional employees who participated in conversations that mocked or disclosed private information about transgender inmates in private Facebook groups, the Illinois Department of Corrections announced a revised social media policy for its roughly 12,000 employees.
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Sonia Jacobs: Convicted despite gun residue on another suspect’s hands
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Sonia Jacobs was convicted of the murder of a Florida state trooper and a visiting Canadian constable at a rest stop outside Miami in 1976; she was on death row for nearly five years before the Florida state court ruled the judge had improperly imposed the death sentence even when the jury did not.
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After more than two decades, evidence mounts of innocence
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A new eyewitness, unearthed police dispatch tapes, and allegations of misconduct by notorious police commander Glenn Evans cast doubt on a Chicago man’s conviction for a 1997 murder.
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Appeals court hears claim judge harshly treated murder defendant to hide his own corruption
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Attorneys for a Chicago man convicted of a 1976 police killing argued before a packed Illinois appellate courtroom Thursday that the prisoner was found guilty and given a sentence of several hundred years by a judge trying to conceal his own corruption.
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Corey Dewayne Williams: Intellectually disabled teen’s confession led to death row
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Corey Dewayne Williams took a reduced plea last year for his alleged role in a robbery-murder he confessed to at age 16, after an all-night interrogation in police custody.
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Dennis Harold Lawley: Died in prison despite evidence Aryan Brotherhood ordered murder
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There were plenty of reasons for concern over the verdict that Dennis Lawley was responsible for the murder of an ex-convict named Kenneth L. Stewart, whose body had been found on the side of a road in California’s Central Valley days after he was released from prison in 1989.
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Robert Leslie Roberson III: Shaken baby case disputed by medical experts
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Five days before he was scheduled to be put to death in 2016 for the 2002 murder of his two-year old daughter, Robert Leslie Roberson III won a reprieve from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
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Texas appeals court halts Rodney Reeds execution
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The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has unanimously voted in favor of a 120-day reprieve for death-row inmate Rodney Reed, who is scheduled to be executed Wednesday despite significant evidence of his innocence.