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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.
Maxwell was sentenced to death by a 10–2 vote from the jury, while Ferguson was sentenced to death by the judge despite the jury's 11-1 majority vote for life imprisonment. Two of the other co-accused were sentenced to life in prison while the final member was jailed for 15 years for robbery after he testified against the others.
Capital punishment has been repealed in the U.S. state of Illinois since 2011. 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 ...
Parmly was previously convicted of murder in Marion County, Ill., in 1984 and sentenced to death row. His sentence was eventually reduced to 76 years before being paroled in November of 2021.
Ronaldo Mikos (Illinois): Sentenced in 2005 for the killing of a federal grand jury witness in a Medicare fraud investigation. James H. Roane, Jr. (Virginia): Sentenced in 1993 for his ...
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
Thomas Hartley Montgomery (1873) only Irish policeman sentenced to death for murder; Carey Dean Moore (2018) most recent execution in Nebraska; Harry Charles Moore (1997) most recent execution in Oregon; Patrick Moran (1921) William Morva (2017) last execution in Virginia; Leon Moser (1995) Norishyam s/o Mohamed Ali (1999) Shukri Mustafa (1978 ...