For the 6th year in a row, University of Illinois ...

For the 6th year in a row, University of Illinois Law and Human Rights Professor Francis A. Boyle has nominated George Ryan for the Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination says "the current growing moratorium movement spreading across the United States is a reality directly connected to Ryan's courageous opposition to the death penalty both in the U.S. and around the world, and to his visionary action to impose the first U.S. moratorium against the death penalty in 2000." Boyle cited Ryan for his "commitment to humanitarian principles and his tireless efforts to create dialogue in support of seeking justice for the 3,350 men and women warehoused on death rows throughout the U.S." Boyle says "George Ryan's dream to end governmental killing has temporarily come to fruition." Boyle says Ryan "has done more effective work against the death penalty than the entire American Abolitionist Movement put together."