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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. ....
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Anthony Porter, an Illinois death-row exoneree whose case sparked a chain of events that ultimately led the state to abolish the death penalty, has died. He was 66 years old. In 1983, Porter was convicted and sentenced to death of the murder of two teenagers in a southside Chicago park. No physical evidence linked him to the murders, but after more than 17 hours of coercive interrogation, another man, William Taylor, told police that he had seen Porter commit the murders. Porter came within 50 hours of execution in September 1998, when the Illinois Supreme Court, concerned that Porter was mentally incompetent because of his low IQ, issued a stay and ordered a hearing on his mental capacity. While that hearing was pending, journalism students at Northwestern University began investigating his case and found that Taylor, who was in the park’s swimming pool at the time of the murders, could not have seen the killings. Taylor recanted his testimony and signed an affida ....
Man whose case helped end death penalty in Illinois dies July 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2002, file photo, former death row inmate Anthony Porter sits in a courtroom at the State of Illinois Building during the clemency hearing for death row inmate Floyd Richardson. Porter, whose exoneration became an incentive to end the death penalty in Illinois, has died. On Wednesday, July 7, 2021, Porter s attorney Jim Montgomery said that Porter died during the week at age 66.Stephen J. Carrera/AP CHICAGO (AP) A former Illinois death row inmate whose exoneration became an incentive to end the death penalty in the state has died, his attorney announced Wednesday. ....