Daughter haunted by dad's claim of innocence

She is haunted by her dad's words -- that he was innocent of murder charges.

He made this statement to 28-year-old Shirlynda Williams-Hamilton, the daughter of Ald. Shirley Coleman (16th), just before he was executed. Now she is on a mission -- to clear her father's name.

Convicted of murdering and raping Linda Goldstone in a 1978 abduction outside of the Northernwestern Prentice Hospital, Hernando Williams was executed on March 22, 1995.

But before he died, he answered his daughter's persistent question. Did you kill and rape that woman? Her father asked that she believe his answer, and challenged her to dig for the truth that he said would clear his name.

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