The Illinois Prisoner Review Board will hear a clemency petition on behalf of a woman convicted of helping kidnap Kankakee businessman Stephen Small and burying him alive in 1987. Nancy Rish says she was trapped in an abusive relationship with the drug dealer who plotted the kidnapping. Small was a member of a prominent media family and a great-grandson of Len Small, Illinois governor in the 1920s. He was buried alive in a box and suffocated when a crudely fashioned breathing tube failed before a ransom could be paid.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 11:04:09 +0000