Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Illinois legislature votes to abolish the death penalty

CHICAGO — After more than a decade of debate over whether the state’s system of capital punishment could ever be fair, state lawmakers voted on Tuesday to end the death penalty in Illinois.

The move, which came only hours before a new group of lawmakers takes office in Springfield on Wednesday, leaves the future of capital punishment to the Democratic governor, Patrick J. Quinn, who has not indicated whether he will sign the legislation. If Mr. Quinn agrees to the ban, Illinois will join 15 other states without capital punishment.
Read the rest here.

I was wrong. In an earlier post I said that the Illinois legislature had not considered any meaningful cuts in spending. The DP is a massive waste of money.

1 comment:

The Archer of the Forest said...

They just raised the state income tax in Illinois 66%, according to the Chicago Tribune. I haven't seen political suicide that bad in quite a while.