Exonerated Death Row Inmate Dies at Home
From Times Wire Reports
Dennis Williams, a former death row inmate who was one of four men whose exoneration became a rallying point for death penalty opponents, has died at his Flossmoor home. He was 46.
Williams spent 18 years in prison for a couple’s 1978 deaths before a Northwestern University professor and his class helped win his 1996 release.
Three men were later convicted of killing the couple.
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