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The Illinois Moratorium

By Steve Hall

"State moratorium on executions - 10 years and counting," is the title of Robert Sanchez's report in the Daily Herald, Chicago's suburban paper.More than a decade has passed since an execution occurred in Illinois. Experts say it could be even longer before the state puts its next condemned inmate to death - if it happens at all.On March 16, 1999, Andrew Kokoraleis was put to death by lethal injection after he was prosecuted for his role in the slaying of nearly 20 women in the 1980s in Cook and DuPage counties.Then in 2000, former Gov. George Ryan, citing the wrongful prosecution of Rolando Cruz for Jeanine Nicarico's murder, declared a statewide moratorium on executions. He cleared out Illinois' death row three years later when he commuted 167 death sentences to life terms...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 29, 2009 (boomark / email).