Illinois House Passes Death Penalty Ban, Senate Next

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

Illinois House passes death penalty ban, Senate next
Thu Jan 6, 2011 11:18pm EST

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Illinois House on Thursday voted to ban the death penalty, moving the measure on to the Senate a decade after a moratorium on executions was put into place by former Governor George Ryan.

Thursday night's vote came after a first vote failed, according to Illinois State Representative Elaine Nekritz, a Democrat who voted in favor of the ban. The final vote was 60-54 in favor of the ban.

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Ryan ordered the moratorium in January 2000 following a series of revelations that more than a dozen people had been sent to Death Row who were later found to be innocent.

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If the bill is approved in the state senate it still must go to Governor Pat Quinn, who has said he continues to favor the death penalty for the worst crimes, according to local media reports.

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[reggie the dog]

1. how can that so called democrat of a governor

say that he still supports the death penalty when half of the fucking death row inmates were found innocent just before their deaths??? hell republican governor ryan suspended the death penalty by decree to begin with and now we risk having a democrat veto suspending it by vote? i thought democrats were anti death penalty????? why did i vote for that asshole???

[alp227]

2. I've heard of a prison scandal of some sort in Illinois

Looked up Wikipedia on George Ryan and learned that he wrote a moratorium on DP in 2000 and commuted all death row inmates to life w/o parole right before he left office. I think I was initially thinking about the Chicago police torture scandal.