Former Death Row Inmate Is Out on Bond
A former death row inmate who served 23 years for killing a security guard has been released and could remain free because a judge agrees the slaying was accidental.
Larry Mack, 48, admitted killing the guard in a botched 1979 bank robbery in Chicago. He was sentenced to death.
In 1995, a Cook County judge and the Illinois Supreme Court ruled out the death penalty in Mack’s case because of the crime’s accidental nature.
Mack’s attorneys argue that he would have been sentenced to no more than 40 years in 1979, and could have gotten out after 20 with good behavior. He was ordered released on bond Tuesday, pending a Jan. 9 hearing to settle his sentence.
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