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Illinois Repeal Effort Gears Up for Veto Session

By Steve Hall

Today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports, "Anti-death-penalty advocates gearing for new push in Illinois next week."  It's written by Kevin McDermott. An anti-death-penalty group says it will use the Illinois Legislature's lame-duck veto session next week to try and pass legislation officially abolishing the death penalty here, 10 years after the state unofficially stopped executing people. The Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty will unveil its latest campaign on Tuesday, as lawmakers return to Springfield, the group said today. Among the group's arguments in this budget-crunch era is that Illinois is still spending millions of dollars a year for the extra safeguards necessary in death-penalty trials, even though there are no actual executions on the horizon because of the state's on-going moratorium...continue to full post

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