Ex-Death Row Inmates March for Clemency
From Times Wire Reports
Former death row prisoners took part in a 37-mile relay walk from a state correctional center near Joliet to downtown Chicago, the latest in two days of activities designed to call attention to flaws in the state’s capital punishment system.
About 30 former inmates carried a letter bound for Gov. George Ryan, urging him to commute all death sentences to life in prison without parole.
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