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Gov Ryan's Speech - Full Text

 

... because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral

 

"I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death."

 

I cannot say it more eloquently than Justice Blackmun.

 

The legislature couldn't reform it.

 

Lawmakers won't repeal it.

But I will not stand for it.

I must act.

 

COERCED CONFESSIONS

    They Served 10 years for Coerced Confessions

    How One Man Confessed To a Crime He Didn't Do by Ochoa

    Seeing What Never Happened    

    Why Confess to What You Didn't Do?

     It Doesn't Matter If the Verdict is Wrong   

 

WOMEN ISSUES
    Time's Up  by Christy Marie Camp - Bio/Address

    Society's Perception by Christy Marie Camp Bio/Address
    Battered Women's New Day in Court - Marva Wallace

 

WRONGFUL INCARCERATION  
    Gloria Killian - Freed After Serving 16 Years

    Freeing the Innocent by Michael & Becky Pardue

    It's a Sad Day When an Innocent Man Is Illegally Convicted - Van Story 

    Reasonable Doubts: Is the U.S. Executing Innocent People?
        Introduction
        Senator Feingold's Endorsement 
        Case Summary Larry Griffin  Case Chart

    

STATE WATCH

    USAJuveniles and the Death Penalty

    AZ - Censored Anti-Death Penalty Web Sites

    LA -  Angola 3

    PA - No Longer Running from the Problem

    VA - For Some, the Evidence Doesn't Matter

    TEXAS - Poor defendants deserve competent appellate lawyers

    TEXAS - It doesn't matter if the Verdict is Wrong

    TEXAS - Death Isn't Fair

 

DEATH ROW

    A Basic Death Penalty Paradox - Edward Lazarus

    Discovery Hearing in a Death Row Appeal Case

    The Ring Decision And What It Means - Richard Rossi Bio/Address

    Federal Death Penalty Unconstitutional

    National Death Row Assistance Network of CURE

 

 REHABILITATION  

    Ripe with Temptation - JAMES KIMBERLY

    People Who Commit Crimes Are Not The Enemy - Calbraith MacLeod

 

PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT

    Discovery Hearing in a Death Row Appeal Case

    Gloria Killian - Freed After Serving 16 Years

    It's a Sad Day When an Innocent Man Is Illegally Convicted - Van Story 

 

NEW BOOKS
   Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs by Jon Marc Taylor

    Freeing the Innocent by Michael & Becky Pardue

      

CARTOONS
   Willie, Bingo & Imagination  by Kojak Bio/Address

 

COVER ART  
    B B King - Osei Cotton Bio/Address

 

POETRY & ESSAYS

    Poems

 

Op-Ed  
    Sept 11, 2001 Remembered - Karl Chamberlain Bio/Address

    Personal Insights - Ron Slatton     Bio/Address

    Rules - The Abusiveness - Ron Slatton     Bio/Address

    Restrictive Society - by Seth M Ferranti

    What To Do About Porn by Brian Dombrausky    Bio/Address

 

 FICTION
    Rooster's Tale  by Chris Cowdrey Bio/Address   

 

RELIGION

    Religion: A Personal Perspective by Bobby Neble Bio/Address

 

ARTS & CRAFTS 

   Leather Wallets by Leonard Freeman Bio/Address

   Cotton Crochet by Troy Davis  Bio/Address

 

EDUCATION - by Jon Marc Taylor Bio/Address

   Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs  

   Tougher Facts 

   Prisons need employees with higher Education 

 

Publisher's Notes

 

Reader's Comment 1/7/03

Hello,

my name is Britta and I want to say, that your issue is great, a big work and I wish you always success for that. Is it possible to join into a email group ?

  

thanks for set me on your list. Yes of course you can use my comment. I was four times on your side today, and there are so many informations, so many thoughts

and so many feelings to see.

Keep on with this all.

 

Thanks,

 

Britta from Germany

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