URBANA, Ill. — Gov. George Ryan on Thursday pardoned three men wrongfully convicted of murder, including Rolando Cruz, whose case has served as a symbol of flaws in the death penalty system ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 23 -- The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Friday that former governor George H. Ryan (R) had the power to commute the sentences of everyone on the state's death row before he ...

Steve Manning, a former Chicago police officer sentenced to death on the word of a jailhouse informant with a long history of telling lies, became the 13th Illinois Death Row inmate to be cleared w… ...

His case prompted Ryan to call for a death penalty moratorium. On January 11, 2003, Ryan blanket-commuted the sentences of all 167 inmates on death row to life in prison. Four of them were pardoned.

Once-condemned men began moving out of death-row cells at Pontiac and Menard this week as prison officials finish off the last phase of former Gov. George Ryan's historic clemency order.

President Joe Biden announced overnight he was commuting the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners to life in prison without parole, including two from Illinois. President-elect Donald Trump ...

SPRINGFIELD -- An unprecedented series of executive clemency hearings began Tuesday for almost all of Illinois' death row inmates, who want Gov. George Ryan to spare them from lethal injection.

The move affects 37 men, including Ronald Mikos, a 76-year-old Illinois doctor. Mikos, the oldest man on federal death row, is only the second person sentenced to capital punishment in the history ...

Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

Danny Edwards, left, who has spent the last 15 years in an 8-by-13-foot cell on death row, sits next to death row inmate Ronald Kliner, as they talk about former Illinois Gov. George Ryan's mass ...

Danny Edwards, left, who has spent the last 15 years in an 8-by-13-foot cell on death row, sits next to death row inmate Ronald Kliner, as they talk about former Illinois Gov. George Ryan's mass ...