- September 7, 2006 • 8:30 am PDT
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Former Illinois Governor George Ryan was sentenced to more than six years in jail today for all manner of fraud and bribery while in office. And while that's a deserved punishment, let's not forget that, after finding glaring flaws in the state's death penalty system, then-Governon Ryan commuted the sentences of everyone on death row, which ended up saving the lives of some people later found to be innocent. He was accused by many of trying to mitigate his crimes or trying to buy off his conscience, but as someone once said about the Governor: "If all of us checked in with our own conscience before we did anything this world would be a lot better world to live in."
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