It's the end of the line for former Illinois Governor George H. Ryan's battle to stay out of prison. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, ironically a Chicago native, has denied the Kankakee Republican's lawyers' request to stay out of prison while his appeals continues.Ryan was found guilty of various racketeering, obstruction of justice, and tax evasion charges last year and sentenced to 72 months in prison. Since then his legal team, led by another former Illinois Repubican governor, James R. Thompson, has fought to keep Ryan a free man.
Best known outside of Illinois for his declaring a moratorium on executions in Illinois in 2000, and his clearing out of the state's death row in 2003, tomorrow morning the 73 year-old will be known as inmate number 16627-424 at the Federal Correctional Institute in Oxford, Wisconsin.
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