Governor took a good thing too far
Commentary
Patrick Jennings

Some changes happen in small steps. Others happen in giant leaps.
Illinois governor George Ryan choose the giant leap approach when he commuted all 156 death sentences in his state to life in prison. In addition, he pardoned four men whose confessions were taken by methods described as “torture.”
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