Besides allowing a review of existing cases, however, a moratorium would buy death-penalty opponents time to try to sway public opinion. It allows us to think. It allows us to talk about this issue. It allows the public to understand what it means when . Schepers was part of a protest outside Daley's office on Wednesday asking the mayor to support a moratorium and to apologize for his role as Cook County state's attorney when Porter was convicted.
Society can apologize. . . .
And the mayor, a supporter of capital punishment, said that it was up to Ryan to call for a death-penalty moratorium. But with Daley apparently feeling some pressure in the midst of a re-election campaign, the mayor's press office later issued a statement saying he backed a moratorium on executions to allow for an extensive review of each case. We are making too many mistakes. But the governor appears uninterested in a blanket moratorium. We're still looking at the best way to do that.