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Quinn Grants 75 Clemency Petitions, Denies 131

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has granted 75 clemency petitions and denied 131 as he works to clear a backlog of cases left behind by ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration.

Quinn commuted the sentence of a man who has maintained his innocence in two Peoria, Ill., murders in 1977.

That ends parole for Johnnie Lee Savory, who was 15 when he was convicted of double murder but eventually won a new trial after an appeals court said his confession had been coerced. He was convicted again and eventually paroled in 2006.

Quinn also granted a pardon and expunged the criminal record of a woman who was paroled in 1966 after killing her husband in Chicago to protect herself and her then-unborn child.

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