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Chicago’s top prosecutor has dropped her opposition to parole for a man convicted of killing a police officer and shooting another during a traffic stop in the late 1960s.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who also declined to prosecute the actor Jussie Smollett’s alleged attempt to fake a hate crime, reversed course a day before Joseph Hurst, 77, will go before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board on Thursday.
Hurst was convicted of killing a city police officer in 1967 and originally sentenced to death in the electric chair. After the U.S. Supreme Court halted capital punishment in 1972, he received a new sentence of 100 to 300 years in prison.
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CHICAGO Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has dropped her opposition to parole for a man convicted of killing a police officer and shooting another during a traffic stop in the late 1960s, according to reports. Chicago’s top prosecutor reversed course a day before Joseph Hurst, 77, will go before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board on Thursday.
Hurst was convicted of killing a city police officer in 1967 and originally sentenced to death in the electric chair. After the U.S. Supreme Court halted capital punishment in 1972, he received a new sentence of 100 to 300 years in prison.