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who stopped all executions. I just visited an elderly relative in an assisted living facility in Ryan's hometown, Kankakee, and had an interesting political conversation with a large group (10 - 6 white, 4 black) workers there. They unanimously want to, in one woman's language, dropkick Bush out of the White House at the next election. But someone brought up Ryan, and he was equally hated because of his death penalty decision. Evidently there were some particularly heinous killings locally and the admitted perp's death sentence was changed to life imprisonment. These low wage workers felt he should have been executed and they also bitterly resented the fact that this guy would live his life out at their/taxpayer's expense of some $40,000 per year. There were also many comments about how corrupt the Ryan administration was (Ryan has been indicted for many federal counts) and how they didn't know how the ex-Governor and his wife dared show their faces in their own hometown.
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