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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.
Rolando Cruz (born 1963) is an American man known for having been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death, along with co-defendant Alejandro Hernandez, for the 1983 kidnapping, rape, and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico in DuPage County, Illinois. The police had no substantive physical evidence linking the two men to the crime.
(Still another girl had escaped at the time.) On November 11, 2009, after deliberating about 10 hours over two days, a DuPage County jury sentenced Brian Dugan to death for the rape and murder of Jeanine Nicarico 26 years earlier. Dugan's sentence was commuted to life in prison after Illinois passed a law in 2011 abolishing the death penalty.
Vazquez-Jimenez was convicted of sex abuse of a child. The cause of death was hanging, according to Utah county authorities. Jail or Agency: Utah County Jail; State: Utah; Date arrested or booked: 6/3/2015; Date of death: 5/16/2016; Age at death: 45; Sources: Utah County Sheriff's Office, www.heraldextra.com
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In 2020, Lindahl was connected to the death of 16-year-old Pamela Maurer, who was killed on January 13, 1976, in DuPage County, Illinois, and in 2024, DNA evidence linked him to the murder of Kathy Halle in Illinois in March 1979.
Joseph Robert Miller (born Joseph Robert Tarczon; January 15, 1955) is an American serial killer and rapist who raped and killed at least six women in Chicago and Peoria, Illinois, from 1977 to 1993.
The Pre-Emption House was the first hotel in DuPage county. [15] After DuPage County was split from Cook County in 1839, Naper's Settlement became the DuPage county seat. [14] In 1843, the Illinois General assembly passed an act to incorporate the Naperville Cemetery Association. [16]