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Turow has been making noise in recent weeks with a series of widely-read editorials in the wake of Illinois Governor George Ryan’s decision to pardon four residents of the state’s death row and commute the sentences of the rest...
This opinion piece was featured just after Governor Ryan’s recent decision to pardon four Illinois death row inmates and commute the sentences of the rest to life in prison. Ryan acted in response to the findings of the death penalty commission, whose final report concluded that the death penalty as it currently exists in the state is not responsibly applied. The commission had recommended 85 reforms which would allow the death penalty to begin to operate fairly...
...dumping of nuclear waste in the Pacific. Having spent 20 months in prison awaiting trial, Pasko was cleared of treason, but convicted of exceeding his authority. Though released, Pasko was brought back to military court on charges of treason in 2000. Last March, President Vladimir Putin offered Pasko a pardon, which he refused. Now the former captain says he will fight to clear his name...
...lawyers claimed that crucial evidence had not been made available to them by prosecutors. Yet for all the outrage over Hobley's arrest and imprisonment, his release played only a bit part in the drama of Illinois Governor George Ryan's final hours in office. After granting a full pardon to Hobley and three others condemned to death, Ryan then commuted the death sentences of an additional 157 inmates. Death row in the Land of Lincoln is now officially empty...
...Pardon the personal question, but have you ever had a sexual fantasy involving the use of a nonliving object--Anna Kournikova's tennis outfit, say, or Tom Cruise's Risky Business skivvies? Actually, don't answer that--we really don't want to know--and you should probably think twice before telling your therapist. She might diagnose you with fetishism, which is listed along with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in a curious but extremely influential book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM for short...