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Sep 11, 2020
Years After Their Death Sentences Were Commuted, Former Death-Row Prisoners in Illinois, Ohio Are Released
Two former death-row prisoners whose sentences were commuted by governors in Illinois and Ohio more than a decade ago have been released from custody. Renaldo Hudson (pictured) was one of 167 prisoners whose death sentences were commuted to life without parole by Governor George Ryan in January 2003. He was released from Danville Correctional Center on September 2, 2020, after Governor J.B. Pritzker granted him a second commutation, reducing his sentence to time served. Jeffrey Hill was…