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National News Coverage of the Illinois Repeal

By Steve Hall

  I'll break the coverage between two posts; this one for national coverage, Illinois coverage, next. "Illinois Governor Signs Capital Punishment Ban," is the New York Times report by John Schwartz and Emma Fitzsimmons. Illinois became the 16th state to ban capital punishment as Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday signed an abolition bill that the state legislature passed in January. ?Since our experience has shown that there is no way to design a perfect death penalty system, free from the numerous flaws that can lead to wrongful convictions or discriminatory treatment, I have concluded that the proper course of action is to abolish it,? Mr. Quinn said in a statement. At a news conference at the Capitol in Springfield, Mr. Quinn said that signing the bill was the most difficult decision he had made as governor...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 10, 2011 (boomark / email).