Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Legislator: Quinn to sign death penalty abolishment bill at noon

The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is expected to sign legislation into law at noon that will abolish the death penalty in the state, according to the bill's primary sponsor, State Rep. Karen Yarbrough (D-Maywood). While a candidate last year, Gov. Quinn said he favored capital punishment.

And that's not all that occurred on the campaign trail last year: Quinn said he supported a much smaller income tax increase than the lame duck session approved--which he signed off on--in January. House Minority Leader Tom Cross (R-Oswego) claims Quinn swapped tax hike votes in exchange for a promise that he would sign the death penalty abolishment bill.

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  1. Atlanta Roofing11:38 PM

    As others have said, it''s ironic that so many Americans like to trumpet about their values and their moral superiorit¬y, the US being a beacon of what a civilised democracy should be - yet, the US remains about the only 'civilised¬' country that just loves judicial killing.

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