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FILE - This August 1993 file photo from the Illinois Department of Corrections via The Southern Illinoisan shows Grover Thompson in the Menard Correctional Center in Dwight, Ill. Just days before he left office former Gov. Bruce Rauner granted posthumous clemency to Thompson, the deceased Illinois prisoner convicted in a stabbing, to which serial killer Timothy Krajcir later confessed to committing. The Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois in Springfield says Thompson received the first posthumous exoneration in Illinois history.  (Illinois Department of Corrections via The Southern Illinoisan via AP, File)

FILE - This August 1993 file photo from the Illinois Department of Corrections via The Southern Illinoisan shows Grover Thompson in the Menard Correctional Center in Dwight, Ill. Just days before he left office former Gov. Bruce Rauner granted posthumous clemency to Thompson, the deceased Illinois prisoner convicted in a stabbing, to which serial killer Timothy Krajcir later confessed to committing. The Illinois Innocence Project at the University of Illinois in Springfield says Thompson received the first posthumous exoneration in Illinois history. (Illinois Department of Corrections via The Southern Illinoisan via AP, File)

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