[Pessimist]

Must be a dem, since they didn't mention his affiliation.

[Feiny]

You are technically right, but he won as a Republican and governed as a democrat.

[Zeppelin]

*****In 2000, the Republican governor declared a moratorium on executions in Illinois after 13 death row inmates were found to have been wrongly convicted. Then, days before he left office in 2003, he cleared death row, commuting the sentences of all 167 inmates to life in prison. He declared that the state's criminal justice system was "haunted by the demon of error."*****

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[Michael.SF.]

Must be a dem, since they didn't mention his affiliation.

Actually they did, (towards the very end):

In 2000, the Republican governor declared a moratorium on executions in Illinois after 13 death row inmates were found to have been wrongly convicted.

[montyspython]

No, he's a Republican.

[proudpapa]

George Lyin' Ryan is worse the a Democrat.

He's the mother of all RINO's. He ran as a conservative against a conservative, democrat Glenn Poshard.

Almost immediately after getting elected he revealed his true colors. George Ryan almost single-handedly has destroyed the Republican party in Illinois.

And I still regret the fact that I voted for the slimy S.O.B.