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| Ill. Governor to Review Death Row Cases |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/18/2002 |
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Illinois Gov. George Ryan told a national conference on capital punishment recently that he had received files on all 163 death row inmates in his state and will review each one in the 10 months before his term ends. The Republican got a standing ovation after describing events that led him two years ago to declare a moratorium on executions, including a journalism professor and students who helped free an innocent man only hours from execution. Since reinstating capital punishment in 1977, Illinois has freed 13 death row inmates - one more than the state has executed in that time. Ryan spoke at the conference held at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics at the University of Oregon. Ryan thanked University of Colorado sociology professor Michael Radelet, one of the conference panelists, for completing a new study on capital punishment in Illinois. The report will be used to guide Ryan and the Illinois Death Penalty Commission on changes needed in the state capital punishment system. New York University law professor Robert Blecker countered opposition to capital punishment, telling conference participants that the overwhelming majority of Americans support the death penalty. Blecker said improved DNA testing and new laws to weed out only 'the worst of the worst' killers would reduce the number of executions and increase the certainty that only the 'truly evil' are being punished. |
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