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• Position: Stateline - Brief Article

Aaron Patterson is running for the legislature in Illinois. Last year, Aaron Patterson was on Death Row. "The system took my life for 16, 17 years, and I want to make sure that others aren't held hostage in that system like I was," he says, vowing to make death penalty reform his passion should he win office. He was pardoned by then-Governor George Ryan and freed last January. While state law bars convicted felons from seeking municipal office...