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George Ryan [1934-0] American
Rank: 104
Politician, Former Governor of Illinois


George Homer Ryan, Sr. was the 39th Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1999 until 2003. He was a member of the Republican Party.

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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. Death
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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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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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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 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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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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