In 1994, Gary Gauger was wrongfully placed on death row, but was proven innocent a few years later. After his sentence was overturned, Gauger was profiled in a 2000 play called “The Exonerated.” ...
CHICAGO — As Republican Gov. George Ryan considers commuting some, possibly all, death sentences in Illinois to life terms before he leaves office in mid-January, about 40 former death row inmates who ...
WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) _ A McHenry County judge has dismissed portions of a lawsuit brought by exonerated former Illinois death row inmate Gary Gauger. Gauger spent 3 1/2 years behind bars for the April ...
CHICAGO (AP) -- A man who spent nearly a year on death row after being convicted of murdering his parents can sue McHenry County officials for false arrest, but not for wrongful prosecution, a federal ...