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It’s time once again to dive in to another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about over the past week:

One question that comes to mind is whether Randy Steidl's co-defendant — Herbert Whitlock — will receive a similar pardon, and if so, when.

After 23 years and five governors, former death row inmate Randy Steidl had pretty much abandoned his long-sought goal of obtaining a gubernatorial pardon based on “innocence.”

Exchange for leniency. police now had enough to arrest steidl and whitlock. >> i think the brutal nature of the slayings, the fact that it was a double homicide, the other aggravating factors that our office will likely seek the death penalty. >> both herb whitlock, age 41, and randy steidl, age 35, had histories of petty crime. news of their arrests reached steidl's brother rory, an illinois state trooper. >> randy, he drank. be in a bar setting. if he got angry or someone started something, there was a crowd and consequently there would be problems. my master sergeant called me and said, you...

>> we're able to go through and view all of the police reports that included polygraph reports that had never been disclosed to us. a polygraph report where darrell herrington had failed the polygraph. >> but if reinboldt and herrington were lying, why had both of them fingered steidl and whitelock for the crime? randy thought he knew. >> two weeks before dike and karen were murdered, herb whitlock and myself had went to the fbi about prosecutor mike mcfatridge. >> they believed the state's attorney mike mcfatridge was unfairly targeting them for drug deals they had nothing to do with. >> and ...