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By Steve Hall

In Illinois, the Rockford Register Star carries the editorial, "Our View: Accept no substitute, abolish death penalty in Illinois," today. Illinois legislators will be busy during the veto session. It is hard to believe there could be anything more important than the state?s $13 billion deficit and the worst-funded pension liability in the nation. But neither one of those issues should weigh as heavily on legislators as the knowledge Illinois has wrongly sentenced men to death. The Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is right: We must go further than extending the moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois. We must abolish capital punishment in our state, now and forever. Former Gov. George Ryan made Illinois the first death penalty state to suspend executions...continue to full post

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