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The Illinois Moratorium

By Steve Hall

"Death penalty moratorium still not put to test," is the title of Christy Gutowski's report in suburban Chicago's Daily Herald.The ranks of Illinois' condemned men is quietly swelling despite the unofficial moratorium.Triple killer Edward Tenney joins 15 other convicted murderers sentenced to death by lethal injection.After 13 innocent men on death row were exonerated, former Gov. George Ryan characterized Illinois' as a broken system and enacted a 2000 moratorium on executions. He later commuted the sentences of 167 condemned inmates to life in prison without parole. Several reforms followed, as the exonerations continued. To date, 20 death penalty inmates have been cleared in Illinois since 1977, when capital punishment was reinstated...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 10, 2010 (boomark / email).