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Should capital punishment be banned for mentally retarded defendants? Of course it should. And policymakers at the state and national levels now have an…
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There’s the ideal. There’s reality. Then there’s politics.When Gov. George Ryan two years ago put a hold on Illinois executions and formed a commission to…
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Rep. Jack Davis wanted to add one more capital crime. Too many children were being killed, he said, and their murderers should pay with their lives. The…
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Appearances are everything. Gov. George Ryan's moratorium on executions appears to have stopped in its tracks a flawed capital punishment system. He…