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CounterPunch
January
17, 2003
Governor Ryan
Nominated for Nobel Prize
CounterPunch Wire
It is official: George Ryan is now a
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. Francis A. Boyle announced "I
have today filed the Nomination by fax with the Nobel Peace Prize
Committee in Norway. StopCapitalPunishment.org will now focus
its efforts on promoting and lobbying on behalf of Governor Ryan
to be awarded the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize."
Francis A. Boyle, Professor of Law, University
of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, a member of the Campaign
to nominate George H. Ryan for the Nobel Peace Prize made good
on his promise by completing and filing the nomination papers
recommending ex Governor Ryan of Illinois for the Nobel Peace
Prize late yesterday.
Professor Boyle noted that "By exposing
the inhumanity of capital punishment in the United States, George
H. Ryan has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, "conferred the
greatest benefit on mankind.""
The reasons to which Boyle referred are
well documented and many. The highlights are the moratorium on
the death penalty that Ryan declared in 2000, culminating with
his courageous and historic exonerations of January 10th and
the commutation of all the remaining Illinois death row prisoner's
sentences on January 11th, just two days before he officially
left office.
Ryan's actions have been the subject
of both praise and bitter attack. But one thing is certain; the
future of the Death Penalty in the United States has been irrevocably
changed. George W. Bush who presided over the execution of more
people in Texas than any other Governor in history - 156 souls
by actual count - was rarely or ever questioned about this in
his run for the Presidency. In the aftermath of George Ryan's
groundbreaking action it is hard to imagine this ever happening
again.
Phone: 1-217-333-7954
Fax: 1-217-244-1478
Email: committee@stopcapitalpunishment.org
Website: http://www.stopcapitalpunishment.org
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