BELLEVILLE â Paula Sims, a Madison County woman serving a sentence of life in prison in the deaths of her daughters more than 30 years ago, is eligible for a parole hearing after a commutation by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker adjusted her sentence.
The commutation was first reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday.
Sims, 61, was convicted of killing her infant daughter Heather in Alton in 1989 and hiding the death of another daughter, Loralei in 1986. She was serving a life sentence without parole.
In appeals and clemency requests, Sims lawyers have argued that she was suffering postpartum psychosis at the time of the babies deaths.