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Repeal News Coverage From Illinois

By Steve Hall

The National Law Journal reports, "The death knell for capital punishment? Will Illinois' effort to end capital punishment help kill the death penalty nationally?" It's by Tony Mauro. Until a month ago, Chicago lawyer and best-selling author Scott Turow chalked up the chatter about repealing Illinois' death penalty to "the eternal optimism of the abolitionists that they were 'close.' "Then a legislator asked Turow, a partner at SNR Denton and a death penalty critic himself, to call other lawmakers. "In one of those conversations, I realized this actually might occur," Turow said.It might very well. On Jan. 11, the Illinois Senate passed a repeal measure by a 35-22 vote, five days after the state house approved the measure, 60-54...continue to full post

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