Pat Quinn, Governor of Illinois, has today completed the last step towards the abolition of the death penalty by signing the law that replaces it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole. The device also provides that the State used for capital punishment to be transferred to a fund for services to the families of murder victims and law enforcement.
The abolition of the death penalty in Illinois comes after a moratorium period eleven, declared by former Republican Governor George Ryan.
L'Illinois è il sedicesimo Stato ad abrogare la Pena capitale, facendo con ciò registrare il maggior numero di Stati abolizionisti dal 1978.
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