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  2. Murder in Illinois law - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. List of homicides in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. 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.

  5. List of punishments for murder in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Murder, as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with intent (or malice aforethought), and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter). As the loss of a human being inflicts an enormous amount of grief for individuals close to the victim ...

  6. Category:Murder in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    People convicted of murder by Illinois (95 P) L. Lynching deaths in Illinois (13 P) M. ... List of homicides in Illinois; Murder in Illinois law; C. Chicago Strangler; D.

  7. 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 ...

  8. We Don't Need Terrorism Laws When Murder Is Already Illegal - AOL

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    But criminal law continued to treat terrorist crimes like regular crimes. Ramzi Yousef, who killed six people at the World Trade Center in 1993 and plotted to blow up several airliners, was thrown ...

  9. Crime in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Crime in Illinois (2019) [2] Violent Crime Property Crime Murder Rape Robbery Aggravated ... In 2019, Illinois had 846 state and local law enforcement agencies. Those ...