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...initial trial represents a picture of the legal system at its worst and most dangerous, Hernandez and Cruz were only two of the thirteen Illinois death row inmates who were later exonerated; the reversals of these convictions—and 11 others—prompted Ryan to impose a moratorium on capital punishment in Jan. 2000, to the joy of anti-death penalty activists everywhere...
...only one would have been needed if the complex had a tunnel. Neighborhood activists also foolishly passed up what Harvard claimed was a $5 million bargaining concession, including a million-dollar parcel of land designated for a park, a $300,000 donation to the neighborhood and a five-year moratorium on construction by Harvard in nearby blocks...
Harvard’s final offer included a million-dollar parcel of land designated for a park, $300,000 for neighborhood projects, and a five-year moratorium on local building—concessions which administrators estimated came with a $5-million price...
...neighborhood took their grievances to the city council and won a two-year development moratorium so that they could completely rewrite zoning for the neighborhood...
Ryan declared a moratorium on executions in January 2000 and ordered a comprehensive review. His blue-ribbon commission issued more than 80 recommendations, but the state legislature hasn't passed any reform measures. As the clock ticked on his term, Ryan began to personally review all death-row inmates' cases. "I have taken extraordinary action to correct manifest wrongs," he said. But Cook County state's attorney Richard Devine, whose office prosecuted the four pardoned men, called the Governor's actions "outrageous and unconscionable." Ryan, he said, "has breached faith with the memory of the dead victims, their families...