Illinois has abolished the death penalty, effective July 1. Gov. Pat Quinn, who signed the legislation on March 9, also commuted the sentences of the men on death row to life imprisonment without parole.
This is the end of a long, sad story featuring spineless political leaders, law enforcement officials who were unconcerned with justice, a public that did not want to know the truth and, almost certainly, innocent men executed during the past two centuries.
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