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Illinois Veto Session Begins Tomorrow

By Steve Hall

James Warren posts, "Exposé Hits Hard At Death Penalty System," at the Chicago News Cooperative.  It's a must-read: In our collective myopia, we may assume the Illinois death-penalty system is fixed. After all, the past decade brought exposés of men unjustly on death row, then-Gov. George Ryan?s imposing a moratorium on executions, then-State Senator Barack Obama and others? pushing through reforms and Mr. Ryan?s commuting the death sentences of 157 in 2003, to worldwide acclaim. Today?s reality is as mixed and melancholy as the legacy of Mr. Ryan, the Republican who had an honorable epiphany on capital punishment but was sent to prison on corruption charges prompted by a more ignoble streak. ?It doesn?t look too fixed to me,? said Leigh B...continue to full post

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