Randy Steidl

For those of you familiar with the case of Randy Steidl in Illinois, I have attached a link to a very interesting article about his case and about the underlying murders for which he was convicted. Steidl was released from an Illinois penitentiary in May after a federal judge threw out his conviction and ordered him to either be retried or released (it took almost a year before Steidl was released). Steidl served twelve years on death row before his sentence was commuted to life in prison when a court found that he received ineffective assistance of counsel during the penalty phase of his trial. He was imprisoned for over seventeen years total.

From Death Row to Freedom