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Porter’s case led in part to former Illinois Gov. George Ryan halting executions in the state. In 2003, Ryan declared a moratorium on executions in 2003 and before leaving office cleared death row by commuting the death sentences of more than 150 inmates to life in prison. Gov. Pat Quinn abolished the death penalty in 2011. Hanlon consulted with Porter and his family in Chicago in 2013 after the conviction of an alternate suspect in the 1982 double murder case began to unravel. Porter s case was absolutely pivotal, Hanlon said, on a number of fronts. It s a great innocence case, said Hanlon, who also worked for the Illinois Appellate Defender. There s a total lack of physical evidence (against Porter) and you have one witness who the police interrogated for a lengthy time and his statement changed after that, not so shocking.

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