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...welcome but somewhat belated act of conscience, Illinois Gov. George Ryan announced a moratorium Jan. 31 on executions in his state. Illinois has been ground zero for the death penalty battle: over the past 13 years, 13 prisoners have been released from death row on the grounds of their innocence, more than have been executed during the same period. Although Ryan had consistently defended the death penalty until now, another exoneration last month and a scathing review of the justice system by the Chicago Tribune apparently convinced him to change his mind. In a statement that we should expect...
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...state to address such problems by banning the measure - albeit temporarily - when Governor George Ryan announced an indefinite moratorium on executions pending an investigation into the state's justice system. The last straw came last week when, for the 13th time, the state overturned a conviction of a death row inmate, which means that Illinois has exonerated more death row inmates than it has executed since the death penalty was reinstated. That statistic, said Ryan, was too dramatic too ignore...
...There were some other numbers worth noting - 33 inmates on Illinois' death row were represented at trial by lawyers who've since been disbarred or suspended, and a third of those sentenced to death row in the state in the past 23 years had their sentences reversed later. "This is a ringing indictment of the Supreme Court's inability to properly interpret and oversee the Constitution's protection against cruel and unusual punishment," says TIME legal writer Alain Sanders. "While conservatives and liberals agree that those guilty of crimes need to be punished, the courts must hold to a higher...
...suit alleged, the death penalty was sought considerably more often in cases involving white victims than it was when the victims were black. The Court decided in favor of Georgia. Then last year the Nebraska legislature, concerned about what it saw as the overrepresentation of minorities on death row, voted in favor of a permanent moratorium. The vote was vetoed by Gov. Mike Johanns. And now Illinois. As the judicial and political wheels slowly turn in addressing the issues involved in capital punishment, only one thing is clear - we haven't heard the final word...