SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet heralded by some for clearing the state’s death row, has died. He was 91.

That legacy contends with the more than five years in federal prison he ... Warner eulogizing Ryan as a bipartisan political figure who would stand out as an oddity in today’s political landscape.

Ryan, the Illinois governor who reopened a national debate over capital punishment in 2000 by imposing a moratorium on death-row executions in his state, and who later went to prison for taking ...