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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.
This is a list of homicides in Illinois. This list includes notable homicides committed in the U.S. state of Illinois that have a Wikipedia article on the killing, the killer, or the victim. It is divided into five subject areas as follows: Multiple homicides – homicides having multiple victims.
List of people executed in Illinois; ... List of white defendants executed for killing a black victim; See also. List of executions in Japan
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 ...
The US had executed 1,428 people via lethal injection as of February 2025. [3] The number of people executed annually in China is thought to surpass all other countries combined, though the actual number is a state secret, [ 18 ] and the percentage of people killed via lethal injection and the other method of execution used there, firing squad ...
Update at 2:45 p.m. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the name of the man suspected of killing three people in Mahomet Wednesday night before fleeing to Berwyn, where he was ...
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 ...