Illinois House Votes To Abolish Death Penalty

Illinois House Votes to Abolish Death Penalty
Action Comes Nearly 11 Years after then-Gov. George Ryan Cleared Death Row, Declared Moratorium on Ill. Capital Punishment Like this Story? Share it: Learn about the people, economy and geography. (AP) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois House has approved a plan to abolish capital punishment in a whirlwind reversal on a historic vote. The Legislation to halt state-sponsored execution gained the necessary 60 votes Thursday after an earlier vote fell short. The landmark action comes nearly 11 year...

Illinois House votes to abolish death penalty
Illinois Rep. Karen Yarbrough, D-Maywood, discusses Illinois Senate Bill 3539, which she is sponsoring, on the floor of the House of Representatives at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. In a whirlwind reversal, the Illinois House voted to Repeal the state's death penalty hours after an initial attempt failed. The Repeal measure came up one vote short during a 59-58 tally earlier Thursday. But a second vote yielded the required 60 votes. The measure passed 6...

Illinois House passes death penalty ban, Senate next
Chicago | Thu Jan 6, 2011 11:18pm EST Chicago (Reuters) - The Illinois House on Thursday voted to ban the death penalty, moving the measure on to the Senate a decade after a Moratorium on executions was put into place by former Governor George Ryan. Thursday night's vote came after a first vote failed, according to Illinois State Representative Elaine Nekritz, a Democrat who voted in favor of the ban. The final vote was 60-54 in favor of the ban. "I believe the history of the death penalty in...

Illinois House Passes Death Penalty Ban, Senate Next
Source: Reuters Illinois House passes death penalty ban, Senate next Thu Jan 6, 2011 11:18pm EST Chicago (Reuters) - The Illinois House on Thursday voted to ban the death penalty, moving the measure on to the Senate a decade after a Moratorium on executions was put into place by former Governor George Ryan. Thursday night's vote came after a first vote failed, according to Illinois State Representative Elaine Nekritz, a Democrat who voted in favor of the ban. The final vote was 60-54 in favor of...

Illinois House passes death penalty ban, Senate next
Thursday night's vote came after a first vote failed, according to Illinois State Representative Elaine Nekritz, a Democrat who voted in favor of the ban. The final vote was 60-54 in favor of the ban. "I believe the history of the death penalty in Illinois demonstrates that we are not in a position to get it right 100 percent of the time," said Nekritz, explaining her vote. Ryan ordered the Moratorium in January 2000 following a series of revelations that more than a dozen people had been sent ...

Plan to kill death penalty in Illinois fails by single vote
A move to abolish the death penalty in Illinois failed by a single vote in the House today. The vote came 10 years after then-Gov. George Ryan first placed a Moratorium on the death penalty following revelations that several people sent to Death Row were later exonerated. Read more in Clout Street. ...

Illinois House debating death-penalty abolition
St. Louis stocks SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois House has just started debating a bill to abolish the death penalty. If it passes, it would return to the Senate. Supporters are trying to get it passed to Gov. Pat Quinn as early as today. We'll update here....

Illinois House Votes to Abolish Death Penalty
"You can release an innocent man from Prison but not from the grave" said Gordon "Randy" Steidl, who spent 17 years in prison, including 12 on death row, after being wrongfully convicted of a double Murder. Thursday, the Illinois House voted to abolish the death penalty. The bill now goes to the Senate, where passage will be difficult, but not impossible. Thirty-five states now have the death penalty... Three states — New York, New Jersey and New Mexico — have eliminated the death ...

Illinois moves to tax online purchases, hits bloggers, small business
Internet Retailer today: Lawmakers in Illinois have voted for a 6.25% tax on online retail purchases. The levy, which still needs the Governor's approval, would apply to goods bought through affiliates of online Retailers that take in least $10,000 worth of annual sales in the state. Illinois Affiliate Tax Will Harm Small Businesses and Reduce Tax Revenue Tax Foundation here. Just got an email from Amazon:

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan asks to leave prison to be with dying wife
Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, who is serving 6 1/2-year sentence on racketeering and Fraud convictions, filed an emergency request to leave federal Prison so he can be with his dying wife. Lura Lynn Ryan, 76, suffers from metastatic Stage IV carcinoma, an aggressive form of Cancer that has attacked her lungs, back, pelvis, ribs and liver, according to an emergency motion for bail posted on the Chicago Sun-Times' website. Her family was called to her bedside after she was admitted t...

Death penalty repeal fails by one vote
Posted by Barton Lorimor 4:53 p.m. Efforts to Repeal Illinois’ death penalty failed in the House by one vote. The issue has been placed on postponed consideration. Pro-repeal Lobbyists said immediately after the vote that Rep. Patrick Verschoore was supposed to vote in favor of the measure. Rep. Rosemary Mulligan was the only representative not to cast a vote. She is reportedly out of town due to an illness, but would have voted, “Yes.”. Video of the vote board… ...

Rep. West: 'The American People are Not 'Up' For the Bureaucratic State'
Friday, January 07, 2011 By Dan Joseph Former Lt. Col. Allen West, newly elected to the U.S. Congress from Florida. (AP photo) Washington (CNSNews.com) - In his first interview after being sworn in as a U.S. congressman, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) told CNSNews.com on Wednesday he would support defunding ObamaCare in the manner proposed by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), by specifically prohibiting any of the money contained within appropriations bills from being used to fund Obamacare. On Capitol H...

Congressional Calendar January 7, 2010
House Republicans plan to take the first step towards overturning the Health Care overhaul law passed by the last Congress on Friday. They'll be discussing and voting on the terms of debate for bills to Repeal and to "instruct the relevant committees" to formulate Legislation to replace the so-called ObamaCare health plan. There will be some discussion about the contents of the Repeal and replace bills, but much of the talk will be about how the measures arrived on the floor. Democrats say Repub...

Republicans Dispute CBO Claim That Health Care Repeal Would Increase Deficit
Friday, January 07, 2011 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press Rep. John Boehner of Ohio greets House members ahead of his swearing in as House Speaker during the first session of the 112th Congress on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Washington (AP) - Repealing President Barack Obama's landmark Health Care overhaul would add billions to government red ink and leave millions without coverage, Congress' nonpartisan Budget referees said Thursday ahead of a political...

Sides clash over cost of repealing health care law
Washington — Remember the faraway days of the 2010 Midterm Elections, when Republicans swept races across the country on a doggedly anti-spending, Deficit-reduction platform? Barely 24 hours into the 112th Congress, there’s been a major party role reversal: It’s the Democrats now who are the deficit hawks, and they’re laying into Republicans for playing fast and loose with the federal Budget. It all started with the first House vote. After swearing in their speaker and taking the oath

House plans test vote Friday on health care repeal
Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, attends the House Rules Committee meeting regarding floor debate on Legislation that would Repeal the Health Care overhaul bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. The House opens a largely symbolic debate Friday on whether to Repeal President Barack Obama's landmark Health Care overhaul, the culmination of the first week with Republicans back in charge. A procedural vote around midday will set the rules for formal debate and final action next Wed...

Harry Reid Tells Misguided Republicans: ObamaCare Is Not Going to Be Repealed
toni goodman on Far-Left Dem. Rep. Lynn Woolsey Does Her Best to Demoralize The Troops: Calls Afghan War an “Epic Failure” and “National Embarrassment” Diamond Girl on She’s Baaack! Helen Thomas Returns to Journalism Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has suggested that every appropriations bill the Republican-majority House passes this year should include language that specifically prohibits any funding for implementation of the health-care Legislation President Barack Obama...

Wife, two others to face death penalty in airman's slaying
Clark County prosecutors decided Wednesday to seek the death penalty for three of four defendants charged in the slaying of Air Force Staff Sgt. Nathan Paet in a plot authorities said was devised by the airman's wife and her lover. Prosecutors will seek Capital Punishment against Michelle Paet, 29; Michael Rodriguez, 31; and Corry Hawkins, 33. All were indicted by a Grand Jury last month on charges of Murder, Conspiracy to commit murder and Burglary. Rodriguez and Hawkins also face a fourth char...

Man charged with killing Sabina O'Donnell could face death penalty
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the 19-year-old man charged in the Murder of Northern Liberties waitress Sabina Rose O'Donnell last June, lawyers in the case said Wednesday. Assistant District Attorney Richard Sax cited the "horrific" Sexual Assault on the 20-year-old O'Donnell as a reason to pursue capital charges against alleged killer Donte Johnson, as well as charges of Robbery and Burglary that Johnson faces in the case. Sax has filed a notice of aggravating circumstan...

Action alert! Amazon.com may boot me--because of an Illinois internet sales tax
Thank you Marathon Pundit readers for the occasional purchase from Amazon.com from this site. I don't make much money from these sales, and what I earn gets plowed back into the blog--usually for book purchases for my travel series and of course political research. But I might soon be a former Amazon associate. Anne Leary of Backyard Conservative is also on the endangered list. Lawmakers in Illinois have voted for a 6.25% tax on online retail purchases. The levy, which still needs the Governor's...

Illinois lawmakers approve major Medicaid reforms
The Illinois House today approved major changes to the state's Medicaid system aimed at cutting waste and Fraud and scaling back who qualifies for government-subsidized Health Care. The 111-4 vote sends the changes to Gov. Pat Quinn. Read more in Clout Street. ...

Dems make deal for massive tax hikes in Illinois
More bad news from Illinois: Democratic Governor Pat Quinn and the Democrat-controlled General Assembly plan to slug Taxpayers with a 75 percent income Tax Increase, a $1-a-pack Cigarette take hike, and a corporate Income Tax increase from 4.8 percent to 8.4 percent. The Personal Income tax jump, from 3 to 5.25 percent, is said to be temporary. Spending limits will be included in the deal. But not banning public-sector Unions. But this is Illinois. What was it that Quinn's former Running Mate, R...

Illinois to get an 83% tax hike?
 Illinois residents are in danger of watching their income taxes double if they don’t get on their phones and computers now and let their representatives know that they won’t stand for it. Local Tea Party member Bruce Donnelly saw this coming when Pat Quinn beat Bill Brady for Governor this past November. Governor Quinn warned Chicago and Illinois residents that he would have to raise taxes and he wasn’t kidding. The Illinois Policy Institute [IPI], a nonpartisan research ...

Liberals in Illinois will give you a huge 75% tax increase,
The people on the Titantic did not vot to hit the iceberg. People in Homer Glen did not vote for this, nor did the people of Will County. The takers in Illinois voted for this garbage. There are more people in Illinois taking from the Taxpayer than paying taxes. I guess Illinois reached the point where the takers can vote raises for themselves while the producers are forced to give even more to the never ending appitite of the takers. How about forming the State of South Illinois by di...

Rules Are Made To Be Broken?
Republicans made a new Budget rule that all Legislation must be paid for, and one of the first things they did in the new session was break their own rule: House Republicans plan to use a special exception in their Budget rules to Repeal the Democrats’ Health Care overhaul without paying for it - technically, at least. The Congressional Budget Office said last year that the Health Care reform law and its accompanying Reconciliation law would reduce the Deficit by $143 billion through 2019. ...