Governor George Ryan Makes Final Bold Statement on Death Penalty
Today Governor of Illinois George H. Ryan commuted the sentence of 163 men and 4 women on Illinois's death row from capital punishment to life in prison.

I will comment more on this in the near future. But in the mean time, here are some links surrounding the event.

• Governor's Commision on Capital Punishment
  
• NPR report on Governor's action
  
• Text of Governor Ryan's speech
  
• The Northwestern Law - Center for Wrongful Convictions
  
• Statistics on Capital Punishment (Dept. of Justice - Bureau Justice Statistics)
  
• Public Opinion on Death Penalty( Amnesty International)
  
• More Public Opinion on the Death Penalty (Gallup Poll)
  

- posted by Anonymous @ 5:36 PM