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Approximately 80-100 people die in custody in Illinois prisons every year. IDCP facilitates an interactive website as exhibit and memorial to archive, highlight and mourn the deaths of all people in Illinois prisons.
Mar 9, 2011 · Fifteen prisoners awaited execution in Illinois, all sentenced after former Gov. George Ryan cleared death row in January 2003.
This is a complete list of all inmates executed in Illinois since the reinstatement of the Death Penalty in 1976.
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]
No.NameRaceAge1White502White523James P. Free Jr. [3][4]White414Hernando WilliamsBlack40Sep 9, 1990 · Stabbed four people to death to eliminate witnesses to a Sept. 24, 1986, break-in at a West Side Chicago Housing Authority apartment. Killed were: Shirley Martin, 23; Vernita Winder, 22; Dana...
Nov 11, 2021 · Friend and fellow death row inmate Aaron Patterson had been pardoned in 2003, after allegations Chicago police had tortured him into confessing to a double murder.
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Sep 9, 2021 · Ryan personally reviewed the cases of more than 100 Illinois inmates on death row. He appointed a commission to examine and improve the state's death penalty statute to a point that Illinois would not execute an innocent person, and that commission came back with 85 recommendations for legislation.
