Ex-Illinois governor appears at Sundance for film on clemency

Monday, January 19, 2004

PARK CITY, UTAH -- A year after commuting the sentences of 167 death row inmates, former Illinois Gov. George Ryan appeared at the Sundance Film Festival to promote a film that chronicles the unraveling of his state's capital justice system.

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