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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.
Christopher Vaughn is an American man convicted of the murder of his wife, Kimberly, and the couple's three children in June 14, 2007. [1] All four members of the family were shot in their SUV while on the way to a Springfield, IL waterpark.
Voting Rights Act Lawsuit. In 1985, while working as an investigator for a law firm in Springfield, Illinois, Clutter worked on the McNeil v.City of Springfield lawsuit. The African American plaintiffs his firm represented sued the city of Springfield, claiming the structure of government in Springfield violated the voting rights act of 1965 and diluted voting power of African Americ
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 ...
The IDOC is led by a director appointed by the Governor of Illinois, [3] and its headquarters are in Springfield. [4] The IDOC was established in 1970, combining the state's prisons, juvenile centers, and parole services. The juvenile corrections system was split off into the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice on July 1, 2006. [3]
Jeanine Nicarico murder case: Naperville: 1972-07-07: Two Hispanic men wrongfully convicted of rape and murder: Dragiša Kašiković: Chicago: 1977-06-19: Bosnian Serb writer and his nine-year-old daughter murdered by Yugoslavian secret police: Lee Jackson: Chicago: 1979-07-01: Blues musician shot to death during a family argument: Murder of ...
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.
Mark Alan Winger (born November 26, 1962) is a former nuclear engineer from Springfield, Illinois. He was convicted in 2002 of the 1995 murder of his wife, Donnah Winger (born 1963), and Roger Harrington (born 1967).