Chicago police tortured innocent men into confessing to crimes they knew they would be executed for

And they were all innocent. Lots of them. Imagine yourself signing a statement admitting guilt to a murder that you had nothing to do with. That is why there is a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois right now. Any one of us could be tortured into signing a statement admitting to crimes we had nothing to do with. Or fingering other innocent people. Think about that.

That is what Bush and his thugs want to do to us.

Don

http://www.truthinjustice.org/jon-burge.htm

When Jon Burge was fired and left Chicago for Florida 10 years ago, he left turmoil in his wake.

By Leonora LaPeter, St. Petersburg Times
August 29, 2004

TAMPA - The burly man strode confidently from a Tampa courthouse last week, his lawyer placing a protective hand on his back as he passed the news cameras lying in wait.

Curious passers-by stopped and wondered about the guy with the shock of pure white hair smoothed perfectly back.
"Who's that?" someone asked.

Few know him here, and that's how he likes it. But back in Chicago, Jon Burge is big news. He's known as the police commander who, for 20 years, tortured suspects to make them confess.

The accusations are like something out of a wartime prison: electric shock and cattle prods; near suffocation with a typewriter bag; mock executions with a pistol.

Four people who confessed to him were released from death row last year; they're suing him. A special prosecutor has been on his tail for two years.

Fired from the Chicago Police Department, he settled into a waterfront community of brick and stucco houses on Tampa Bay 10 years ago, his police pension intact, a boat out back. He has never been charged with a crime.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/policetorture/050402/

http://humanrights.uchicago.edu/chicagotorture/timeline.shtml

http://gangresearch.net/GangResearch/Chicago/history/burgereportrel.htm

Thanks for the post...

In the military.

Don

...never mind.

*sigh*

people that out-of-control cops are not a new phenomena.

That happened years ago. We use to talk every day. We haven't spoken since that discussion.

Don

The bad apples of society flock to places called Police Departments.

Hopefully that day comes soon.

Had to be a lot of them.

Don

and he is free.

Torturing innocent men into admitting to crimes they didn't do so they could be executed at some later date is murder in my book.

There is no statute of limitations for murder.

Don

The flip side of a fair trial



Results from Illinois' prosecutors "successes" became a traveling "road show" in the form of a seminar to "teach" others. The willingness to look the other way and know that an innocent person is sitting on deathrow is America's international shame.

If the acts of this admin makes you want to puke, then you will not have the stomach to look at the inner workings of America's the death penalty blood money.