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The most notorious death penalty case in the history of Illinois, indeed one of the most famous in the United States, was that of infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Gacy murdered 33 victims between 1972 and 1978. All of his victims were boys between the age of 14 and 21.
To find the numerical rank of an execution since 1976, click on the inmate’s name. The number is listed as “DPIC ID.” This list includes all executions since 1976. For a historical database of executions, visit our Espy Database page. Geographical regions are listed as determined by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
DeathPenaltyUSA, the complete database of defendants executed in the United States of America since 1607 to present. Fully searchable database by name, by year and by State
Governor 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.
This is a complete list of all inmates executed in Illinois since the reinstatement of the Death Penalty in 1976.
Capital punishment has been repealed in the U.S. state of Illinois since 2011. Illinois used death by hanging as a form of execution until 1928. The last person executed by this method was the public execution of Charles Birger the same year.
According to the study, defending a death-penalty case costs about four times as much as defending a case where the death-penalty is not sought. Costs incurred by the trial court showed a similar disparity: $72,530 for cases with the death penalty; $21,554 for those without.
