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Post by happyhaddock on Mar 10, 2011 21:53:29 GMT -5
March 9, 2011Illinois ends death penalty, clears death row
Governor clears death row moments after Illinois becomes 15th state to end capital punishment; law takes effect July 1SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois abolished the death penalty Wednesday, more than a decade after the state imposed a moratorium on executions out of concern that innocent people could be put to death by a justice system that had wrongly condemned 13 men. Gov. Pat Quinn also commuted the sentences of all 15 inmates remaining on death row. They will now serve life in prison with no hope of parole.
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