Ill. Senate Moves on Death Penalty Reforms
From today's Chicago Tribune,
Moving on major anti-crime initiatives, a key Senate committee voted Tuesday to approve sweeping death penalty reforms, mandate taping of interrogations in murder cases and require police to record the race of every driver in traffic stops over the next three years."In a busy legislative day, the Senate Judiciary Committee also voted to let police stop motorists simply for failing to wear their seat belts and to restrict young teen drivers from getting behind the wheel late at night and with carloads of their friends.
The death penalty reforms represented a major step toward overhauling the state's broken criminal justice system and culled key elements from separate task forces put together by former Gov. George Ryan and Senate Democrats, said Senate President Emil Jones (D-Chicago).
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