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In Illinois, Calls for Governor to Sign Repeal

By Steve Hall

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"Gov. Quinn should empty Death Row," is the title of an editorial in today's Chicago Sun-Times. If Gov. Quinn signs the bill that would abolish Illinois? death penalty, what happens to the 15 men already on Death Row and perhaps others whose cases are working their way through the system? Those cases wouldn?t be derailed by the new law, which would go into effect July 1, but Quinn would be wise to follow the lead of New Jersey?s governor when that state abolished the death penalty in 2007 ? commute every existing death sentence to life in prison without parole. One of the most damning criticisms of the death penalty is that it is arbitrary; some people are dispatched to Death Row and executed while others who commit similar crimes are not...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 18, 2011 (boomark / email).

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