A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet ...

Gov. Ryan purged Illinois' death row just three days before his term ended, though he never regretted the decision.

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and ...

Embattled former Illinois Gov. George Ryan has died at age 91. Ryan, who served as Illinois' governor from 1999 to 2003, passed away Friday morning, according to former Illinois house republican ...

George Homer Ryan served one term as Illinois governor, his scandal-clouded tenure and subsequent imprisonment on federal ...

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, whose legacy was sullied by a scandal that landed the Kankakee native in federal prison ...

A Republican and former pharmacist, he cleared the state’s death row and imposed a moratorium on capital punishment. He was ...

For 15 of the 37 former federal death row inmates, their crimes occurred in states that either abolished the death penalty, such as Illinois and Virginia, or have either formal or informal ...

The worst mass-murderer gunman in Illinois, Crimo will follow other monsters who have called Stateville home over the decades. Like John Wayne Gacy, the Norwood Park Township serial killer who ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction overturned by a district judge following a review of forensic analysis that the inmate ...