A west suburban Chicago family is upset Monday over a clemency hearing for the man convicted of killing their loved one more than three decades ago.
Bridget Drobney was just 16-years-old, a high school student inwhen she was brutally murdered while attending a family wedding in downstate Illinois.Bridget was attending a family wedding in Macoupin County downstate in July of 1985 when three young men, pretending to be police officers pulled her car over.
Now, a reform group called the Illinois Prison Project is trying to get one of her killers out of prison.At a Tuesday hearing of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, lawyers working on Turner’s behalf will ask that he be freed after serving 36 years of what was originally a death penalty sentence, later commuted by former Gov. George Ryan to life in prison.
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