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Two men have already been hanged, and Mukherjee rejected the petitions for clemency of five death-row inmates.

New petitions for clemency are on pace to surpass 2,100 this fiscal year, which ends in September.

Mr. Burwell estimated that in three years on the board, he has cast 50 to 60 votes for execution while supporting petitions for clemency five or six times.

In the past several weeks, its five members have been sifting through about 1,100 petitions for clemency, referring promising cases to the governor's Executive Clemency Committee, which has recommended cases to the governor for final determination.

Taken together, the 139 men and three women who filed petitions for clemency have been convicted of killing more than 250 people, and have served more than 2,000 years in prison, an average of 15 years each.

Lawyers for Attorney General Lisa Madigan told the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday that Mr. Ryan did not have the authority to grant clemency to 32 people, largely because most failed to sign petitions for clemency.

Rejecting Clemency Petitioning for clemency, his lawyer J. Gary Hart argued that Texas had failed Mr. Patterson.

Das has been in jail for 17 years, with his petition for clemency pending for 12 years.

Last July, the Justice Department received a petition for clemency that his lawyers say he prepared himself.

United Press International quoted informed sources as saying that Eichmann has declined to authorize his defense counsel to petition for clemency.

Stafford-Smith says that if this fails, then hope will rest solely on a petition for clemency.