Constitutional Law
Mar. 2, 2000
Death on Ice
By Stephen F. Rohde Appalled at the "shameful record of convicting innocent people and putting them on death row," Illinois Gov. George Ryan announced in January that he would halt all executions pending a comprehensive study of his state's use of capital punishment. A moderate Republican who generally supports the death penalty, Ryan was faced with the shocking fact that, since 1977, when Illinois reinstated the death penalty, his state has executed 12 death-row inmates but has exonerated 13
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
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