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EAST ST. LOUIS - Prosecutors across Illinois rebuked Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday for scrapping the state's death penalty, insisting it robs them of a valued tool in enticing murder suspects to plead guilty and the severest punishment to apply in killings deemed especially gruesome.
Quinn's repeal accompanied the Chicago Democrat's commuting to life terms the sentences of all 15 inmates remaining on Illinois' death row. A Quinn spokeswoman said he also will commute the sentence of anyone who might get the death penalty before the repeal takes hold July 1, taking the option out of prosecutors' hands in some big cases yet to be tried.See the full content of this document
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Prosecutors Pan Governor's Decision
Among them: that of Christopher Vaughn, who has pleaded not guilty in the 2007 shootings death of...
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