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“His case was perhaps the most significant of them all in generating the clemencies that the governor issued,”
“The spectacle of him having come so close to execution, literally within two days, literally having been fit for a suit for the coffin, and only later through Northwestern students for the truth to emerge about his absolute innocence was something that was hard for any fair-minded person to ignore. It generated a sense of outrage. I remember it being said that several people said, ‘What does it mean that we need college students to be able to determine that we have an innocent man we’re about to kill?’ So it was very moving.”
“The player at that time was George Ryan,” he said. “He was a jury of one, and convincing him that the system was irretrievably flawed was the goal of those seeking to secure clemency. And Anthony Porter was ‘Exhibit A.’”
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