FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - JANUARY 6, 2008
University of Illinois Law and Human Rights Professor Francis A. Boyle has
nominated George H. Ryan for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. 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 US and around the world, and to his visionary
action to impose the first US moratorium against the death penalty in 2000.
Due to George Ryan's 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 US, the United States
Supreme Court has in effect imposed a nation wide moratorium on executions.
George Ryan's dream to end governmental killing has temporarily come
to fruition.
He has done more effective work against the death penalty than the entire
American Abolitionist Movement put together.
For that reason the world should award him the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.
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