In 90’s, Burris Sought Death Penalty for Innocent Man
While state attorney general in 1992, Burris aggressively sought the death penalty for Rolando Cruz, who twice was convicted of raping and murdering a 10-year-old girl in the Chicago suburb of Naperville. The crime took place in 1983.
But by 1992, another man had confessed to the crime, and Burris’ own deputy attorney general was pleading with Burris to drop the case, then on appeal before the Illinois Supreme Court.
Burris refused. He ...
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Burris is every bit as transparently ambitious and self-regarding as Blagojevich, if not more so. The gaudy monument Burris built for himself at his cemetery plot, replete with a list of his "achievements," conveys his character in an instant. For him to have allowed his own political advancement on the back of the murder of an innocent man is vile beyond belief. Burris does not deserve to be a part-time rural dogcatcher.