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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 06, 2008 4:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Boyle, Francis <fboyle@LAW.UIUC.EDU><br>
<b>Subject:</b> George H. Ryan is nominated for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">George H. Ryan is nominated for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">University of Illinois Law and Human Rights Professor Francis A. Boyle has nominated George H. Ryan for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. The current growing moratorium movement spreading
across the United States is a reality directly connected to Ryan's courageous opposition to the death penalty both in the US and around the world, and to his visionary action to impose the first US moratorium against the death penalty in 2000.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Due to George Ryan's commitment to humanitarian principles and his tireless efforts to create dialogue in support of seeking justice for the 3,350 men and women warehoused on death
rows throughout the US, the United States Supreme Court has in effect imposed a nation wide moratorium on executions. George Ryan's dream to end governmental killing has temporarily come to fruition.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The growing momentum for the outright abolition of the death penalty in the United States is due to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">the heroic efforts of George H. Ryan. He has done more effective work against the death penalty than the entire American Abolitionist Movement put together. For that reason the
world should award him the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For information contact :</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Francis A. Boyle</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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