Policy Issues
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Clemency
,Jan 11, 2023
Illinois Commutations Twenty Years Ago Marked Turning Point in Death-Penalty Abolition
January 11, 2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of former Illinois Governor George Ryan’s decision to grant clemency to every death row prisoner in Illinois, the largest blanket clemency in the modern era of the death penalty. It was a watershed …