Editorial: Rauner's death penalty ploy
by Chicago Tribune
May 15, 2018
2 minutes
The death penalty was suspended in Illinois in 2000 by Republican Gov. George Ryan and abolished in 2011 by Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn. Why? Intractable flaws in the system sent at least 20 innocent men to death row. The state is better off without the death penalty, we wrote in 2011, because "Illinois will no
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