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By Steve Hall

Today's Chicago Sun-Times carries the OpEd, "The case against capital punishment."  It's by Thomas R. Sullivan, Chairman of Illinois Capital Punishment Reform Study Commission.  He's a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. During the past 10, much of my time and energy has been devoted to studying our capital punishment system. As co-chairman of the Governor?s Commission on Capital Punishment (2000-2002), I participated in heart-rending interviews of family members of murder victims and heard moving statements by men who were convicted, sentenced to death and imprisoned for murders they did not commit. As chairman of the General Assembly?s Capital Punishment Reform Study Committee from 2003 to 2010, I participated in four public hearings, during which we heard the views of many of our citizens about the death penalty...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 31, 2011 (boomark / email).