George Ryan Quotes

• While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

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• Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn’t. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.

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• Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

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• I’m going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

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• I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

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• I don’t know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely. A lot of media people will be looking for a case that might make Texas Governor George Bush think twice about what he’s doing.

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• Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious – and therefore immoral – I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

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George Ryan (7)

Birth:	24th February, 1934
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

George Homer Ryan, Sr. was born in Maquoketa, Iowa, USA. He is an American politician, pharmacist, and businessman. He was the 39th Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1999 until 2003. He was a member of the Republican Party. He received national attention for his 1999 moratorium on executions in Illinois and for commuting more than 160 death sentences to life sentences in 2003. He was later convicted of federal corruption charges and spent more than five years in federal prison and seven months of home confinement. He was released from federal prison on July 3, 2013. He attended Ferris State College of Pharmacy in Big Rapids, Michigan.

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