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Jul 20, 2021 | 4:52 PM
(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to be a top issue in the 2022 gubernatorial contest, a political science professor said.
Pritzker announced Monday that he will be running for re-election in 2022.
So far, three Republicans have announced they are running for their party’s nomination to challenge Pritzker. Downstate state Sen. Darren Bailey, suburban Chicago businessman Gary Rabine, and former state Sen. Paul Schimpf have all announced plans to run for governor.
Dr. Kent Redfield, a political science professor at the University of Illinois-Springfield, said the Republican candidates will have to unite the party to have a chance at winning the election.
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Porter’s case led in part to former Illinois Gov. George Ryan halting executions in the state.
In 2003, Ryan declared a moratorium on executions in 2003 and before leaving office cleared death row by commuting the death sentences of more than 150 inmates to life in prison.
Gov. Pat Quinn abolished the death penalty in 2011.
Hanlon consulted with Porter and his family in Chicago in 2013 after the conviction of an alternate suspect in the 1982 double murder case began to unravel.
Porter s case was absolutely pivotal, Hanlon said, on a number of fronts. It s a great innocence case, said Hanlon, who also worked for the Illinois Appellate Defender. There s a total lack of physical evidence (against Porter) and you have one witness who the police interrogated for a lengthy time and his statement changed after that, not so shocking.