The night before Governor George Ryan announced that there would be no more executions in Illinois, I was standing near his lawyer’s office.
WBBM was on the radio.
A reporter said Ryan was being investigated by a Grand Jury.
The next day Ryan announced no more inmates would be executed.
That was the story the next day, not that he was being investigated by a Grand Jury.
I’ve been watching “West Wing” (I know I’m over 25 years late) and one aspect that impressed me was staff concern with controlling the next newscycle.
That’s what George Ryan did be halting executions, as you can see in the Chicago Tribune front page above.
