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Stateville is located 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Joliet, Illinois (16830 IL Route 53 Crest Hill, IL 60403; (815) 727-3607), on a site of over 2,200 acres (8.9 km 2), of which 64 acres (26 ha) are surrounded by a 33-foot (10 m) concrete perimeter with 10 wall towers.
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.
Date of execution Name Age of person Gender Ethnicity State Method Ref. At execution At offense Age difference; 1 January 13, 2027 Keith LaMar: 57 23 34 Male Black Ohio: Lethal injection: Profile: 2 February 17, 2027 Scott A. Group: 62 32 30 White Profile: 3 March 18, 2027 Davel Chinn: 69 31 38 Black Profile: 4 April 14, 2027 Gregory Lott: 65 25 40
Stanley Howard, who spent 16 years on death row and was later exonerated by Gov. George Ryan, said unlivable prison facilities need to be closed down. “It’s inhumane. We can do better.
Illinois must move most of the inmates at its 100-year-old prison within less than two months because of decrepit conditions, a federal judge ruled. The Illinois Department of Corrections said ...
In June, she said the agency had 1,000 vacancies within 63 miles (101 kilometers) of Stateville, including at facilities that will remain open on the Stateville campus. There are 500 vacancies to the south at the larger — and older — Pontiac Correctional Center and 168 at Sheridan prison to the west.
Illinois's last execution was Andrew Kokoraleis, on March 17, 1999. [6] Pontiac Correctional Center housed the male death row, while Dwight Correctional Center housed the female death row. Prior to the January 11, 2003 commutation of death row sentences, male death row offenders were housed at Pontiac, Menard, and Tamms correctional centers. [7]
The year-old report described the facility, opening in the 1870's as the Illinois Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children, as "inefficient, ineffective, and unsuitable for any population" with $116 ...