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Judges urge clemency from Ryan for death row inmates
A group of retired Illinois and federal judges urged Gov. George Ryan to commute death sentences tainted by flaws in the capital punishment system. They stopped short of blanket clemency but pressed for many inmates to receive life without parole, citing coerced confessions, unreliable informants, inadequate defense, and other systemic failures.
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Illinois Supreme Court
Moses Harrison
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R. Eugene Pincham
Anthony Scariano
North Carolina
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