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"State jobs cut due to end of death penalty"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this local piece out of Illinois.  Here are the details: The state of Illinois' decision to eliminate the death penalty means about three dozen state employees will soon be out of work.  The Decatur Herald & Review reports that State Appellate Defender Michael Pelletier began notifying about 37 employees in his office on Friday that their jobs are being eliminated. That's because Gov. Pat Quinn abolished the death penalty earlier this month and commuted the sentences of the 15 men on death row.  Most of the employees being cut are lawyers who handled death penalty cases.  The reduction will save about $4.7 million.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 21, 2011 (boomark / email).