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Former Gov. George Ryan, who halted state’s death penalty but was imprisoned for corruption, dies at 91
George Homer Ryan served one term as Illinois governor, his scandal-clouded tenure and subsequent imprisonment on federal corruption charges overshadowing a nationally historic move to halt the state’s death penalty and empty its Death Row amid concerns of widespread misconduct in capital cases.
Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan Dies at 91. He Halted Executions and Went to Prison for Corruption
Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet heralded by some for clearing the state’s death row, has died. He was 91. Kankakee County Coroner Robert Gessner,
George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, is best ...
The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25.
A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...
Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...
A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.
Judge Steven Hippler denied a motion on Tuesday from Bryan Kohberger's defense team that asked to remove the death penalty as ...
A death row inmate was unable to convince a federal appeals court that Texas’ post-conviction DNA-testing procedures violate his right to due process on Thursday.
The defenders of death row inmate Brittany Holberg have until May 12 to respond to a federal appeals court considering ...
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