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  As always, no thanks are adequate for Annette for her consistent insight and encouragement.

  Any mistakes that remain, despite the dogged efforts of all of these persons, are only my fault.

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  Preamble to the Report of the Illinois Governor’s Commission on Capital Punishment copyright © 2002 by the State of Illinois. Reprinted with permission.

  A portion of this book first appeared in The New Yorker.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Turow, Scott.

  Ultimate punishment: a lawyer’s reflections on dealing with the death penalty / Scott Turow.

  p. cm.

  ISBN: 978-0-312-42373-5

  1. Capital punishment—United States. 2. Capital punishment—Illinois. I. Title.

  KF9227. C2T87 2003

  345.73′0773—dc21

  2003007873

  First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux