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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.
Mass shooting at hospital: Aurora, Illinois shooting: Aurora: 2019-02-15: 6: Mass shooting at Henry Pratt Company [34] 2019 Goodfield arson: Goodfield: 2019-04-06: 5: Arson fire in mobile home started by nine-year-old boy Don Carter Bowling Alley Shooting: Rockford 2020-26-12 3 An active duty soldier shot-up a bowling alley 2021 Chicago ...
During his sentencing hearing, Davis's wife, Cindy, testified that he was not a violent man and she would visit him in prison if he was spared execution. [9] Davis received a 30-year sentence for the shooting of Ostman, an 80-year sentence for killing Oertel and Cash, and a death sentence for killing Biebel. [10]
A man who fatally shot eight people in Illinois over the weekend before taking own life as law enforcement closed in on him in Texas was a family relative to most of his victims, but his motives ...
Hans Vollenweider (1940) last execution in Switzerland; Charles Walker (1990) first post-Gregg execution in Illinois; Berthold Wehmeyer (1949) Keith Wells (1994) first post-Gregg execution in Idaho; Thomas Whelan (1921) Jerry White (1995) Alfred Charles Whiteway (1953) Dennis Whitty (1963) Keith Daniel Williams (1996) Marcel Wayne Williams ...
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 ...
He was reportedly assisted by several students in learning how to shoot, and many knew about the shooting plans in advance. October 27, 1996 San Marcos, California: 4 1 5: A woman fatally shot her four sons in the head inside a residence. The woman then attempted to commit suicide by shooting her; the woman survived. [22] September 1, 1996
[4] [26] [9] [27] [28] The victims ranged in age from 8 to 88 years old. [29] Highland Park Hospital reported that they were treating 26 people after the shooting, 25 being gunshot wounds, with five later transferred to Evanston Hospital. [30] One of the wounded victims was rendered paraplegic. [31]