Here is a link to some archives of the mass commuting of sentences, and end of death sentences in Illinois.

It turns out that in an absolutely grotesque act of insitutionalized racism, Chicago cops were torturing confessions out of innocent African American men, and they were being sent to death row for their confessions.


http://www.ccadp.org/news-ryan2003.htm


Unfortunately this is not an anomoly. This was just a more extreme case. The criminal justice system is not very just. It needs some sweeping revisions.