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  2. 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 ...

  3. Capital punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For instance, South Korea retains capital punishment but has observed an unofficial moratorium on executions since 1997; [3] Taiwan is the only other advanced democracy with capital punishment for ordinary crimes; in 2024 Taiwan's Constitutional Court upheld the legality of the death penalty, but restricted its use to the most serious crimes (i ...

  4. Capital punishment by the United States federal government

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    Capital punishment is a legal punishment under the criminal justice system of the United States federal government. It is the most serious punishment that could be imposed under federal law. The serious crimes that warrant this punishment include treason, espionage, murder, large-scale drug trafficking, or attempted murder of a witness, juror ...

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. ‘Hitting kids should never be allowed’: Illinois bans ...

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    Today, 17 states technically allow corporal punishment in all schools, although four prohibit its use on students with disabilities. North Carolina state law doesn't preclude it but every school ...

  8. List of most recent executions by jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.

  9. Defying Supreme Court, DeSantis signs death penalty bill - AOL

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    The death penalty law DeSantis signed is intended to get the conservative-controlled U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a 2008 ruling that found it unconstitutional to use capital punishment in ...