 
George Ryan |
to reflect on death penalty
Illinois Governor George H. Ryan will present a lecture titled "Until I Can Be Sure: Reflections on the Administration of the Death Penalty," on Monday, April 16, at the Law School.
The talk, sponsored by the Knight Journalism Fellows at the Law School, will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public.
Ryan, a longtime supporter of the death penalty, is widely known for the moratorium on capital punishment he imposed in Illinois last year. Since Illinois reinstated the death penalty in 1977, 13 of the state's inmates on death row have been cleared of charges. In January 2000, the governor declared a moratorium on executions and established a commission to review the system of capital punishment in his state.
"Until I can be sure, with moral certainty, that no innocent man or woman is facing a lethal injection, no one will meet that fate," Ryan said.
Ryan was elected Illinois's 39th governor in 1998, after serving as secretary of state from 1991 to 1999, and lieutenant governor from 1983 to 1991, following a 10-year legislative career. Since taking office in January 1999, he has successfully proposed a $12 billion infrastructure program, tax credits for job-creating companies, laws preventing children's access to guns and tougher sentences for criminals who use guns, an open lands trust initiative and an HMO patients' bill of rights.
The Knight Journalism Fellows are a select group of journalists who are chosen to spend a year at the Law School learning about the law in depth, so that they are better able to educate their readers upon their return to journalism. Fellows receive a master of studies in law degree.
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