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If you can't trust a cop...
« on: January 10, 2003, 07:52:00 PM »
...you might be the Republican Governor of Illinois???

That's right!

The governor of the midwest U.S. state of Illinois announced Friday that he is pardoning four men who were slated for execution for crimes they did not commit.

Illinois Governor George Ryan says he is pardoning four death row inmates who he says were wrongly prosecuted and convicted.

Governor Ryan says all four men were tortured into false confessions by police and have suffered, in his words, "a manifest injustice."

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