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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.
Transferred from the Menard Correctional Center to Stateville Correctional Center for execution by lethal injection on May 9, 1994, and declared dead at 12:58 a.m. the following morning. Gacy was the first person involuntarily executed in Illinois since 1962. [13]
He was executed by lethal injection at Stateville Correctional Center at the age of 50, becoming the first person to be executed in Illinois since 1962. [2] [3] The execution was considered botched because the lethal injection machine was unable to make the drugs go through the kinked lines. [4] [5] [6] [7]
In the following years, Albanese attempted to have his sentence appealed and convictions overturned, but all of them were shot down. [2] On September 20, 1995, he was executed via lethal injection at the Stateville Correctional Center, continuing to protest his innocence and accusing the authorities of "covering up the facts" of the case. [2]
Prisoners sentenced to death by Illinois (1 C, 21 P) E. People executed by Illinois (4 C, 1 P) ... Stateville Correctional Center; T.
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