The governor of Illinois declared a moratorium on the death penalty in his state due to:
A) claims by prisoners that lethal injection is a cruel method of punishment.
B) the large number of wrongfully convicted individuals released from death row.
C) sSerious prison riots by inmates upset about the death penalty.
D) evidence that judges had acted unethically in capital trials.
E) racial discrimination in application of the death penalty.
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