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AN IDEOLOGICAL ODYSSEY: EVOLUTION OF A REFORMER
When the US Supreme Court narrowly and temporarily struck down the death penalty in Furman v. Georgia in 1972, holding that its arbitrary imposition amounted to cruel and unusual punishment, Justice Thurgood Marshall theorized in a concurring opinion that the average citizen, if fully informed of the realities of capital punishment, would \"find it shocking to his conscience and sense of justice.\" The majority's reasoning resonated with me -- as Justice Potter Stewart put it, the death penalty was \"so wantonly and freakishly imposed\" that it was \"cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual\" -- but Marshall's thesis did not. The criminal justice system's propensity for error barely registered with me at the time, even though the author was aware of the wrongful conviction of a man named Lloyd Eldon Miller Jr., who had come within eight hours of execution for the murder of an eight-year-old girl in Hancock County, IL, in 1955.
Journal Article
Illinois Death Penalty Reform: How It Happened, What It Promises
In the light of Illinois Governor George Ryan's declaration of a moratorium on executions of death row inmates & of his decision to remove all persons from the death row list, this article considers death penalty reform in Illinois. It is suggested that recent reform measures, as well as reforms recently proposed, have been motivated by the recognition of an incalculable level of human error in death-penalty decisions. This article examines the death penalty reform package recently proposed & then overwhelmingly approved by the state General Assembly. Also covered is the context behind recent reforms & suggestions for reform, as well as the evolution of the strategy used by capital punishment opponents in Illinois. An appendix lists summaries of wrongful convictions in Illinois capital cases. 1 Appendix. T. K. Brown
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Wrongful conviction
Because she aspired to go on to law school, she chose as her field-studies site the criminal court at 2650 S. California Ave., securing successive clerkships in the state's attorney's and public defender's offices.
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Ignoring an injustice
[Richard Brzeczek]'s letter went unanswered, and [Richard M. Daley]'s office proceeded to win [Andrew Wilson]'s tainted conviction in 1983. Wilson was sentenced to death. After the Supreme Court reversed his conviction 4 years later, he again was convicted -- without his tortured confession -- and this time sentenced to life.
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Police shouldn't skirt all the blame ; If only they did their job right in 1982
From [James Ealy]'s improper arrest, the seemingly persuasive evidence of his guilt flowed: the discovery under his bed of fabric similar to that with which the victims had been strangled, and his confession. The confession followed 18 hours of on-and-off interrogation during which, the Appellate Court found, Ealy was deprived of sleep, food and drink.
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