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Illinois Tea Leaf Reading

By Steve Hall

The Chicago Now blog reports, "Governor Quinn's decision on Illinois' death penalty."  It's posted by Brian C. Thomas. The clock continues ticking down to March 18th. That's the final day Governor Quinn can act on legislation passed by the lame duck legislature banning the death penalty. And: In the twenty-five years from the reinstatement of the death penalty to George Ryan moratorium, Illinois has convicted 298 men and women to death. Of those 298 sentenced to death, 20 have been exonerated. Twenty reasons for Governor Quinn to sign the bill abolishing Illinois' death penalty. We shall see; Governor's Quinn decision on the bill should come this week.  Michael Sneed posts, "Death to death?" at his Chicago Sun-Times blog...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 08, 2011 (boomark / email).