Shutting down death row: Illinois' death-penalty reforms may presage a fairer criminal-justice system.(Reform)
American Prospect, The, July, 2004 by Templeton, Jean M.
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CHANGE IN THE CRIMINAL-JUSTICE SYSTEM IS A rare thing. Change in death-penalty policy is even more rare. Yet Illinois undertook a comprehensive reassessment of its death-penalty system recently, passing reforms that will have far reaching impacts on how murder trials are handled in the state--and that could serve as a model for reform in the rest of the country.
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Following the review, 11 men were released from death row, and the furor over the death penalty only escalated after the 1999 release of death-row inmate Anthony Porter. Porter had been convicted of a double murder, ...
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