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...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...
...office in 1999, he supported the death penalty. But he found Illinois' record "shameful": the state's 12 executions since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1977 had been outstripped by 13 exonerations. By November 1999, half of the state's almost 300 capital cases were reversed; 46 death-row inmates had been convicted on testimony from jailhouse informants. A Chicago police commander was fired after an internal inquiry found that he and his detectives had systematically tortured murder suspects (all four inmates released last week said their confessions were coerced by these officers...
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...
...keep me awake. When I sleep I give C’s. How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for—a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A’s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in the top, “Illustrate;” “Be specific;’ etc.? They mean...
...Crimson can have an off month, flip the switch on for the playoffs, and then win three straight overtime games and the conference tournament for the second consecutive year. There was a better chance of Princeton beating Harvard in Cambridge by the same score two years in a row...