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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.
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Born in Texas on November 5, 1982, [11] Ramiro Felix Gonzales was raised by his grandparents due to the negligence of his mother. According to sources, Gonzales never met his father until he was 19 and incarcerated at the same prison as his father, and Gonzales's mother, who was 17 when giving birth to her son, struggled with severe drug addiction and alcoholism, and continued to do so while ...
For his last meal, he refused to make a special request, so he was given the standard last meal on Florida’s death row: steak done medium rare, eggs over easy, toast with butter and jelly, milk ...
A Clinton County man convicted of a 1993 murder was among them.
What death row inmates can choose for their last meal varies a lot, highlighting American ambivalence around capital punishment. Death penalty in the US: How do Oklahoma's last meal rules compare ...
The last person executed by this method was the public execution of Charles Birger the same year. After being struck down by Furman v. Georgia in 1972, the death penalty was reinstated in Illinois on July 1, 1974, but voided by the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1975. Illinois officially reinstated the death penalty on July 1, 1977.
The perpetrator, 23-year-old Romeo Nance, who was related to seven of the victims, fatally shot himself a day later after being confronted by law enforcement officials near Natalia, Texas. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is the deadliest mass shooting in the United States for 2024, as well as the deadliest in Illinois history, surpassing the shootings in ...