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.Read the rest here.
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.
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.
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.
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