Loyola Honors Execution Reformer

The Times-Picayune reports on the speech made by ex-Illinois governor George Ryan last night.

When critics questioned how a governor could make such a blanket, far-reaching decision as emptying death row, Ryan, a pharmacist by training with 35 years of public service, put it as plainly as his Midwestern upbringing: "I was the man who had to give the final order, to inject poison in fatal doses into a man's veins. With that at stake, how could I go on with this system?"

Posted by AJR at April 1, 2003 10:29 AM