[Peace-discuss] FW: [deathpenaltyusa] Illinois prof again nominates George Ryan for Nobel Peace Prize

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Illinois prof again nominates George Ryan for Nobel Peace Prize
BY KEVIN McDERMOTT > kmcdermott at post-dispatch.com<mailto:kmcdermott%40post-dispatch.com> > 217-782-4912
Posted: Monday, January 31, 2011 2:40 pm

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois ex-Gov.George Ryan, currently serving a 6-1/2 year prison sentence for corruption, should win the Nobel Peace Prize for freezing all executions in Illinois and commuting the sentences of more than 160 death-row inmates, a University of Illinois law professor says.

Professor Francis A. Boyle has made an annual crusade out of attempting to secure the coveted prize for Ryan, a Republican who was convicted in 2006 of using his public office to enrich himself and his associates. As an international law professor, Boyle is allowed to nominate people for the Nobel.

``Thanks to Governor George Ryan there have been no . . . executions by the State of Illinois for over a decade,'' Boyle noted in an email announcing his latest nomination of Ryan.

In fact, Ryan's decade-old moratorium on executions laid the groundwork for a bill that passed the Legislature this month to abolish the death penalty in Illinois altogether. Gov. Pat Quinnhasn't yet signed it, but many expect him to.

What are Ryan's chances of winning a Nobel? Probably the same as they've been in past years. Certainly, the prize has gone to political prisoners--but to give one to a guy serving an apparently valid sentence for political corruption would raise some eyebrows.

Many death penalty opponents who admire what Ryan did say his corruption conviction is a separate and irrelevant thing. Boyle has taken it a step further, claiming (with an unusual theory, and no proof, it should be noted) that Ryan was purposefully prosecuted by the Feds because of his anti-death-penalty work.Here's a 2006 story we did on Boyle's claim.

Ryan's wife, Lura Lynn Ryan, has terminal cancer. Ryan has so far been denied a furlough from prison to be with her in their Kankakee, Ill., home.

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