Victims' relatives try to keep faith in justice amid clemency h

Saturday, October 19, 2002

CHICAGO -- One by one, they forged their own trail of tears this week, relatives of murder victims testifying in clemency hearings being held for nearly all of Illinois' death row inmates.

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