Yeah, but you can do anything with statistics... / WAS: Troublemaking Bleeding Heart Liberals

[TruthMonger]

* In July, a group of lawyers and state legislators petitioned the
Illinois Supreme Court to halt all executions immediately and
appoint a commission to study why, in the 20 years since the state
reinstituted the death penalty, more death row convicts have been
subsequently been found innocent and freed (9) than have been
executed (8). 

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To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six
months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html
(That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no audio. 
 Just text.  Deal with it.)