CHICAGO — George Homer Ryan served one term as Illinois governor, his scandal-clouded tenure and subsequent imprisonment on federal corruption charges overshadowing a nationally historic move to halt ...

Marissa Sulek joined CBS News Chicago in January 2025. Before Chicago, Marissa was a general assignment reporter in Nashville at WSMV, where she was nominated for Mid-South Emmy Awards for her ...

When George Ryan, a small-town pharmacist turned Illinois governor, stood before the world in 2000 to halt his state’s death penalty, he didn’t just pause executions — he ignited a global conversation ...

A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with error” that it might end an innocent life. By Robert D. McFadden George H.