Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, who was heralded for halting death penalties in Illinois — but later served time on a corruption conviction — has died at the age of 91. Ryan, a Republican who served ...
George Homer Ryan served one term as Illinois governor, his scandal-clouded tenure and subsequent imprisonment on federal corruption charges overshadowing a nationally historic move to halt the ...
A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with error” that it might end an innocent life. By Robert D. McFadden George H.