George Ryan, Governor of Illinois, who stopped the execution of the prison, dies at 91

George H. Ryan, the governor of Illinois, who reopened a national debate about the death penalty in 2000 91.

His death was made by his son George H. Ryan Jr.

The governor Ryan, a moderate Republican who, like most Americans, favored the death penalty of capital, defended his decision to suspend the death penalty in Illinois on January 31 as an act of conscience.

Hardly a year in his only four -year term, Mr. Ryan said that the state's death penalty had been of serious mistake since 1977, when Illinois was reintroduced after a break of the federal government. Of 25 inmates that had been brought to the death cell during this time, 12 were executed, but 13 were sent there for crimes they had not committed and were later relieved and released.

“I cannot support a system that has proven to be so full of mistakes in its administration and has come so close to the ultimate nightmare that the state takes innocent life,” he said.

He added: “Until I can be sure that everyone who has been sentenced to death in Illinois is really guilty until I can be sure that no innocent man or no innocent woman faces an fatal injection, nobody will meet this fate.”

The moratorium was celebrated by opponents of the death penalty, which said that cases of deaths were common in America and were often corrupt by questions of the breed, poverty, the bad lawyers and the police or the public prosecutor's misconduct. Contemporary research has proposed that 70 percent of the fully checked capital cases contain reversible errors.