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  2. List of United States Supreme Court opinions involving ...

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    Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for rape of an adult woman when the victim is not killed. Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill. Tison v.

  3. List of people executed in Illinois - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Capital punishment for homosexuality - Wikipedia

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    South Carolina was the last state, in 1873, to repeal the death penalty for homosexual behaviour from its statute books. The number of times the penalty was carried out is unknown. Records show there were at least two executions, and a number of more convictions with vague labels, such as "crimes against nature". [95]

  5. Capital punishment in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Illinois used death by hanging as a form of execution until 1928. 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 ...

  6. LGBTQ rights in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    A change in 1874 resulted in the maximum imprisonment penalty being set at 10 years. The first reported sodomy case occurred in 1897 in Honselman v. People where the Supreme Court of Illinois ruled that fellatio (oral sex), whether heterosexual or homosexual, was a violation of the sodomy law; the first such case in the United States.

  7. List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States

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    List of death row inmates in the United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2024; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976

  8. Lefty Georgia DA in Laken Riley case faces outrage after ...

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    By refusing to seek the death penalty, she denied Laken’s family, friends, and community the full measure of justice they deserve.” US Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Ga.) also weighed in.

  9. The Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints - Wikipedia

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    The Death Penalty: Opposing Viewpoints is a book in the Opposing Viewpoints series. It presents selections of contrasting viewpoints on the death penalty : first surveying centuries of debate on it; then questioning whether it is just; whether it is an effective deterrent; and whether it is applied fairly.