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IL: Quinn signs bill repealing Illinois death penalty

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Quinn signs bill repealing Illinois death penalty BY DAVE MCKINNEY And Stephen Di Benedetto Mar 10, 2011 02:29PM SPRINGFIELD ? Acting on perhaps the most significant issue he will ever face, Gov. Quinn Wednesday signed landmark legislation to repeal the state?s ?seriously broken? death penalty and then commuted the death sentences of the 15 men on Death Row. ?We cannot have a death penalty system in our state that kills innocent people,? Quinn said. ?Unfortunately that system was in grave danger of doing exactly that in 20 different instances in Illinois. And so what?s really in question is the system itself. If the system can?t be guaranteed 100 percent error-free, then we shouldn?t have the system. It cannot stand. It just is not right in our democracy and system of justice...continue to full post

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