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...George Ryan, a death penalty supporter, whose state has exonerated 13 men from death row in the last fourteen years. Several of those men were exculpated by DNA evidence, and Illinois has adopted a law providing for widespread DNA testing. Ryan has also prudently (although belatedly) declared a state moratorium on executions until the system can be reformed...
...death penalty, he laughs about it; he's so sure of himself, even though five of his fellow Governors are so disturbed by new evidence that convictions were brought about by faulty forensics, coerced confessions and false accusations that they've placed a moratorium on executions. Yet Bush insists he hasn't made and couldn't make a mistake...
...Larkin Petition, initiated by Shannon Larkin herself, placed an 18-month moratorium on development in East Cambridge...
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Last Monday, troubled by the fact that so many people on death row in his state had been proven innocent, Illinois Gov. George Ryan issued a moratorium on executions. Though commendable, this action presupposes that capital punishment is a method we ought to use, that perhaps, if we could change the way it is administered, it would be a desirable method of crime control. However, it is not the potential for racial bias or the risk that people on death row may actually be innocent that makes capital punishment a less than ideal method of crime prevention...