Perjury Trail Of Chicago Cop Tied To Torture Begins

In a May 24th 2010 article, Perjury Trial Of Chicago

Cop Tied To Torture Begins: In November or 1983 Darryl

Cannon was taken by the police because they believed he had

nformation about a murder. Cannon wouldn't release any

information to them about the murder, so they handcuffed him and put a shotgun into this mouth and kept pulling the

trigger, it was really a cattle prod. Cannon just wanted them

to stop pulling the trigger so he told them that he had

committed the murder, even though he hadn't just so they

would stop. Cannon spent more than twenty years in jail

because of this. He was released in 2004 and is now suing

for wrongful conviction. Burge, the police officer was never

charged for the torture, because it had happened too long ago.

But, he was charged for lying in a previous case about the torture.

Also, George Ryan stated that "Because of the Illinois death penalty

system is arbitrary and capricious, and therefore immoral, I no longer

shall tinker withe machinery of death." George Ryan cleared the states

death row. I don't believe that this was right, because he should have

been charged for the torture that Cannon had to go through, even though

it happened a while ago.

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Posted By: Christina McGee