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Illinois has four different homicide crimes in total, with first-degree murder being the most serious offense. Illinois law defines first-degree murder as when a person intends to kill, intends to inflict great bodily harm, or knowingly engages in an act that has a strong probability of death or great bodily harm for another individual, causing a person's death. [2]
The Justice Department is investigating an Illinois county sheriff's office after a former deputy fatally shot a Black woman in her home, sparking national outcry and renewed calls for police reform.
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.
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 ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The former Illinois deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey last month will remain jailed, a judge ruled Friday, rejecting his request to be released to accommodate his medical ...
Crimo video confession admissible A judge has ruled that a video confession given by the man accused of shooting and killing seven people at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park two years ...
The Tamms Correctional Center is a closed Illinois Department of Corrections prison located in Tamms, Illinois. [1] Prior to its 2013 closure, the prison housed people in two sections: (1) a 200-bed minimum security facility, opened in 1995, and (2) a 500-bed supermax facility known as the Closed Maximum Security Unit ("CMAX"), opened in 1998, that housed people defined by the prison ...
Sonya Massey, 36, died after an encounter with deputies from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office in Springfield early July 6, according to a news release from Illinois State Police, which is ...