Before leaving office earlier this month, Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 men on death row and pardoned outright four others, thus placing in limbo, at least temporarily, the state’s death penalty. Ryan was widely praised by death-penalty opponents in the United States and abroad. Prosecutors and victims’ groups were outraged, and few p (...)
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Illinois justice
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