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Nov. 16, 2012 —
Morehead State University’s Interdisciplinary Forum will host death row exoneree Randy Steid! on
Tuesday, Nov. 27, at 7 p.m.
MSU, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kentucky and the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the
Death Penalty will present the event in 002 Breckinridge Hall.
The event, sponsored by the Department of International and Interdisciplinary Studies, is free and
open to all MSU students, faculty and staff.
Steidl and his co-defendant were convicted for the 1986 murder of newlywed couple Dyke and Karen
Rhoads in the small town of Paris, Ill. The two maintained their innocence but it was not until some
college journalism students got involved that the case received a proper review.
With in-depth investigative journalism conducted by Northwestern University students, new
information was uncovered and old evidence invalidated. Aided by a local police officer, students
were able to present enough evidence of Steidl’s innocence to call for a new trial.
Eventually, all charges were dropped and he became the 18th person to be released from Illinois’
death row because of a wrongful conviction.
Steidl’s visit comes weeks after the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights called on state
lawmakers to abolish the Death Penalty and less than one year after a team of Kentucky legal
experts published a 400-page report outlining the serious flaws within the state's Death Penalty
system.
Additional information is available by contacting Dr. Ric Caric, professor of interdisciplinary studies, at
606-783-2144 or r.caric@ moreheadstate.edu (mailto:r.caric@ moreheadstate.edu) .
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