This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of

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since 1977. All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in

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. Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.

List of people executed in Illinois

Abolition of death penalty

Governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

Pat Quinn signed legislation on March 9, 2011, to abolish the death penalty in Illinois. All fifteen death row inmates in the state had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment without parole.

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Executions Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

List of people executed in Illinois

Abolition of death penalty

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