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...attention their maladies got. And when they're not getting misty over the inhumanity of it all, you may - when you see surveillance footage of mentally disoriented outpatients from the high-end University of Southern California hospital who are put in a cab and dumped near an L.A. Skid Row homeless facility when their coverage runs...
...Brown's case laid bare the strange state of limbo in Illinois' criminal justice system. Though Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich has continued the landmark moratorium on carrying out executions imposed in 2000 by his Republican predecessor George Ryan, 11 men have been sent to death row since Ryan cleared it out as he left office in 2003 - and prosecutors in the state still plan to seek the ultimate punishment when they feel it fits the crime...
...Warden, who heads up the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University's Law School. "Quite the contrary. It doesn't deter crime, and it's very costly. Not just financially, but socially. We have some evidence in all of the cases where people are currently on death row in this state that the defendants were mentally ill - psychologically, if not legally - and there will be so many appeals and years will pass before these are resolved that couldn't, actually couldn't, see an execution in this state for five to seven more years. How much does that cost...
...Some 200 people across the country, many of them on death row, have been exonerated through DNA evidence, according to the Innocence Project, a New York advocacy and litigation firm headed up by Barry Scheck. More than half of the nation's states have had at least one exoneration. Of those, Illinois, with 27, ranks behind only Texas, with 28, in the total number of exonerations...
...super-nerd. On one side, the floor’s multimedia stations (where you can snuggle up in a comfy $300 office chair) look aout on a stunning vista of the Government Documents and Microforms room and Lamont’s front garden. On the other, a virtual death-row of cubicles tempts only the most concentrated studiers. Luckily, in case the below-sea level altitude induces a nose-bleed, bathroom sinks are nearby. Fifth Floor Reading Room. If you’re not ready to hit up the dance club that is the third floor main reading room with...