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Stateville is often confused with the former Joliet Correctional Center, which closed in 2002. Located in the nearby city of Joliet, the former Joliet Prison is much older and smaller. It is located about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southeast of Stateville on the corner of Woodruff Rd. and Collins St., across the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
Quinn was criticized for signing the bill after saying that he supported the death penalty during the 2010 gubernatorial campaign, after which he defeated the Republican candidate with 46.8% of the vote. [2] In 2018, then Republican Governor Bruce Rauner called for the reintroduction of the death penalty for those convicted of killing police ...
Looking for beer money, Walker robbed them of $40 and shot them to death while the couple fished in a St. Clair County creek. [1] 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.
Outcry over the welfare of those incarcerated at Stateville and at other Illinois prisons grew louder among advocates this summer after the June death of 51-year-old Michael Broadway, who died in ...
Pritzker proposed in late winter replacing Stateville, a maximum-security prison in Crest Hill, and Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, one of the state's two lockups for women. Logan might be ...
In June, she said the agency had 1,000 vacancies within 63 miles (101 kilometers) of Stateville, including at facilities that will remain open on the Stateville campus. There are 500 vacancies to the south at the larger — and older — Pontiac Correctional Center and 168 at Sheridan prison to the west.
The administration, which put a moratorium on federal executions, pursued a death sentence in the case of Islamic State attacker Sayfullo Saipov, for a 2017 attack in New York that killed eight ...
Prisoners sentenced to death by Illinois (1 C, 21 P) E. ... Illinois Death Penalty Amendment ... Morgan v. Illinois; O. Old Sparky; P. Pontiac Correctional Center; S ...