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The Man Who Emptied Death Row
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

The Man Who Emptied Death Row

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

George H. Ryan, Illinois governor from 1999 to 2003, became nationally known for two significant and very different reasons. The first governor in the United States to clear out his state's death row and put a moratorium on the death penalty, he was also convicted and sent to prison on corruption charges." The Man Who Emptied Death Row: Governor George Ryan and the Politics of Crime" details the career of a man who both enhanced and tarnished the image of the highest office in Illinois and examines the political history and culture that shaped him. Author James L. Merriner explores the two very different stories of George Ryan: the brave crusader against the death penalty and the petty crook...

Until I Could Be Sure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

Until I Could Be Sure

In January 2000, Illinois Governor George Ryan declared a moratorium on executions—the first such action by any governor in the history of the United States. Despite a long history as a death penalty proponent, Ryan was emotionally moved after allowing an execution in 1999. He was also profoundly disturbed by the state’s history—12 men had been executed and 13 had been exonerated since the return of the death penalty in Illinois in 1977. More had been proven innocent than had been executed. Three years later, in 2003, Ryan pardoned four death row inmates based on their actual innocence and then commuted the death sentences of 167 men and women. This was the largest death row commutatio...

Until I Could Be Sure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Until I Could Be Sure

Until I Could Be Sure chronicles how Governor George Ryan set aside his prior beliefs - and pressure from the public and politicians - to take on a culture and a system of punishment that Americans long have grappled with, even as much of the rest of the civilized world has consigned it to the dustbin of history.

Official Register of the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1718

Official Register of the United States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1903
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Mercy on Trial
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Mercy on Trial

  • Categories: Law

On January 11, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan--a Republican on record as saying that "some crimes are so horrendous . . . that society has a right to demand the ultimate penalty"--commuted the capital sentences of all 167 prisoners on his state's death row. Critics demonized Ryan. For opponents of capital punishment, however, Ryan became an instant hero whose decision was seen as a signal moment in the "new abolitionist" politics to end killing by the state. In this compelling and timely work, Austin Sarat provides the first book-length work on executive clemency. He turns our focus from questions of guilt and innocence to the very meaning of mercy. Starting from Ryan's controversial de...

Official Register of the United States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1522

Official Register of the United States

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1897
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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1861-1877, Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval [etc.]
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1824
Foreign Service List
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 782

Foreign Service List

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1961
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes field staffs of Foreign Service, U.S. missions to international organizations, Agency for International Development, ACTION, U.S. Information Agency, Peace Corps, Foreign Agricultural Service, and Department of Army, Navy and Air Force

Saving Private Ryan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

Saving Private Ryan

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