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Editorials in the Wake of Illinois Repeal

By Steve Hall

There is a good deal of commentary from Illinois and across the nation following Gov. Quinn's signing into law the repeal of capital punishment.  In this post I'll link to editorials; additional commentary in the next post. In Illinois, the State Journal-Register of Springfield carries the editorial, "Repeal of death penalty a wise move." For years, we have viewed the eventual abolition of the death penalty in Illinois as a foregone conclusion. An 11-year moratorium on executions, a governor unwilling to lift that moratorium and the state?s ever-growing list of exonerations of the wrongly convicted all pointed to a system beyond salvation. While we urged lawmakers many times to officially abolish the death penalty in Illinois, we knew this was not a decision to be taken lightly...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 11, 2011 (boomark / email).