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Quinn was criticized for signing the bill after saying that he supported the death penalty during the 2010 gubernatorial campaign, after which he defeated the Republican candidate with 46.8% of the vote. [2] In 2018, then Republican Governor Bruce Rauner called for the reintroduction of the death penalty for those convicted of killing police ...
On June 30, the FBI arrested Christensen and charged him with kidnapping under Title 18 U.S.C. Chapter 55, § 1201 of federal law. [11] [30] According to the law, if a kidnapping results in the death of any person, life imprisonment or the death penalty is prescribed.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.
He is being held in the Macon County Jail in Decatur, Illinois. Donna Massey mourns the loss of her daughter, Sonya Massey, who was fatally shot in her home by a Sangamon County sheriff's deputy ...
This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. [1] All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. [2] Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The former Illinois sheriff’s deputy charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Sonya Massey could soon be set free, following an appellate court ruling that ...
Illinois: 17 March 1999 [82] Andrew Kokoraleis: aggravated murder: lethal injection: C Indiana: 11 December 2009 [83] Matthew Eric Wrinkles: aggravated murder: lethal injection: A Iowa: 6 September 1962 [84] Charles Edwin Kelley: murder: hanging: C Kansas: 22 June 1965: George York and James Latham: murder: hanging: C Kentucky: 21 November 2008 ...
An Illinois man arrested in Chicago last weekend is accused of plotting to kidnap a boy in Florida and hold him for a $100,000 ransom, according to federal prosecutors. Devontay Shields, 35, was ...