Shawn Whirl receives a kiss from his mother Erma Whirl after being released from the Hill Correctional Center, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, in Galesburg, Ill. Whirl walked out shortly after noon, two months after an Illinois appeals court overturned his 1991 murder conviction in the fatal shooting of Chicago cabdriver Billy G. Williams and one day after a Cook County judge dismissed the charges against him. (Steve Davis/Galesburg Register-Mail via AP), APTOPIX