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Eyes Focus on Illinois Governor

By Steve Hall

"Quinn expected to sign bill abolishing death penalty; status of current death row inmates debated," is the title of Kevin McDermott article in the Decatur Herald-Review.  It also appears in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Gov. Pat Quinn is widely expected to sign legislation within days that would formally abolish the death penalty in Illinois. But that in itself won't necessarily spare accused child-killer Christopher Coleman, or convicted child-killer Cecil Sutherland. Both men, and at least 14 others, could find themselves facing execution in a non-death penalty state under the legislative principle that new laws can't be retroactive. Quinn, a Democrat, hasn't said whether he will sign the abolition bill that passed the legislature Jan...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 04, 2011 (boomark / email).