It’s the gravity of these crimes and the heavy responsibility that these board members hold that make it vital and imperative that they go through the constitutionally-required vetting process and come before the Illinois Senate for confirmation.
“Yet again, the 14-member Prisoner Review Board, 10 of which are acting and serving unconfirmed, has voted to release another individual who has committed heinous, unspeakable crimes. The Senate Republican members of the Illinois Senate Executive Appointments Committee released the following statement. Her legal team had unsuccessfully petitioned for similar relief from the Quinn and Rauner administrations. Sims was convicted in 1990 of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life without parole. She’d reportedly told police both times that someone had kidnapped her daughters.
Sims later admitted killing another baby daughter, Loralie, three years earlier in 1986. At the hearing, there are seats divided into two sections, one on behalf of Sims release and one area for those protesting her release.Īlton, Illinois Police arrested her in 1989 for the murder of her six-week-old daughter Heather, who was found in a trash can.
