>> The most appalling part to me was that in many cases there was malfeasance by overzealous prosecutors who were more interested in their conviction rates than justice. They railroaded suspects they had good reason to believe were innocent, withheld evidence from the defense attorney(s), and so on.
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>And let me guess, not even one conviction (well, I know I am probably exaggerating here) and of course, even less executions of said lawyers that might otherwise be considered serial killers if it wasn't for the piece of paper that hangs in their walls, right?

I honestly don't know. Hopefully some of them got in some trouble, or at least had their reputations damaged. There was a lot of publicity about those cases after Gov. Ryan suspended executions.

Gov. Ryan, BTW, is now in the hoosegow, following a grand tradition of Illinois governors.