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Spring 2001: Does Capital Punishment Have a Future?
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Steve Mills
Steve Mills has been a reporter at the Chicago Tribune for about 7 years. He first
worked in the newspaper's suburban bureaus, then covered the Chicago Police Department.
Currently, he covers criminal justice issues.
Mills worked on the Tribune's three series on the death penalty:
The Failure of the Death Penalty in Illinois was the recipient of the 2000 Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association
in the newspaper category. For this series, Mills and his colleague Ken Armstrong examined
every death penalty case in Illinois since capital punishment was reinstated in 1977. The
series revealed a capital punishment system riddled with serious problems and has been
cited by Illinois Governor George Ryan, who placed an indefinite moratorium on executions
and appointed a bipartisian commission to review the system of capital punishment in
Illinois.
Mills is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He lives in Chicago
with his wife and three children.
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Steve Mills
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