Governor to Meet Murder Victim Families
Gov. George Ryan said he plans to meet with at least some families of murder victims regarding clemency requests for 142 death row inmates.
“I certainly sympathize with them, I understand their agony. Whatever makes life easiest for them,” Ryan said after addressing the National Assn. of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “They’ve been through a lot of pain....”
Nine days of unprecedented clemency hearings for almost all the inmates on Illinois’ death row ended Monday. The hearings came more than two years after Ryan halted all executions, citing the wrongful convictions of 13 death row inmates.
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