Guest columnist Eric Zorn: The “Why?” question has hung over the gut-wrenching story of Marilyn Lemak’s actions since March 4, 1999, when she methodically drugged and suffocated her children in their picturesque Victorian home in Naperville. Now petitioning for executive clemency while serving a life sentence, she told me from prison that she still struggles to answer it herself.
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