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Chicago Sun-Times' columnist Carol Marin wrote, "A commuted sentence, and a life reborn," in Sunday's paper.  It's a must-read.Ten days ago, I took a trip I wouldn't have predicted. This is a story about a near-execution, a graduation and a decision by former Gov. Jim Edgar that has delivered unexpected consequences. It's a story about rising up and reaching down. In January 1996, Guin Garcia, an inmate on Death Row at Dwight Correctional Center in Downstate Illinois, was on the verge of execution. Months earlier, Garcia, a 36-year-old convicted double murderer, had dropped her court appeals, said she was done "begging for her life" and put the wheels in motion for her death by lethal injection. It would mark the first execution of a woman in the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).