Former Illinois Governor George Ryan (whose stellar death row-emptying work you may remember) was convicted of all federal corruption charges brought against him.

It would appear, that, as a crooked Republican politician, the death row thingy was a wild stab at equalizing karma.

Here's the NYT story: Ex-Governor of Illinois is Convicted of All Charges

Of course, the sad thing is that while federal corruption is uncool (though from the article, it's not Halliburton or DeLay-grade corruption), at least the man sees that it's pretty much wrong to kill anyone under any circumstances.