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Illinois governor pardons four death row inmates in Chicago case
Gov. George Ryan pardoned Madison Hobley Stanley Howard Aaron Patterson and Leroy Orange saying police tortured them into false confessions in the 1980s. All but Howard were released immediately as Ryan nears end of tenure and weighs commuting 140 other death row inmates.
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