Illinois panel rules cancer-stricken ex-cop convicted of murdering unarmed Black woman should stay in prison

The Illinois Prisoner Review Board Friday denied a bid from a cancer-stricken former downstate sheriff’s deputy convicted of murdering an unarmed Black woman to be released from prison early. Sean Grayson, who is white, is serving a 20-year-sentence for fatally shooting Springfield area resident Sonya Massey in her kitchen two years ago. And despite a jury finding him guilty of second degree murder, Grayson maintained in his petition for early release that the 36-year-old Massey “attacked him…