List of people executed in Illinois

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. Two other men condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman and Murray Hooper, was executed in Ohio and Arizona, respectively. ^[2] Hooper's death sentences in Illinois were commuted to life in prison in 2003 and his murder convictions were vacated in 2013 due to discrimination in the selection of his jury prior to his execution in Arizona.

Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.

List of people executed in Illinois

No.	Name	Race	Age	Sex	Date of execution	County	Method	Victim(s)	Governor
1	Charles Walker	White	50	M	September 12, 1990	St. Clair	Lethal injection	Kevin Paule and Sharon Winker	James R. Thompson
2	John Wayne Gacy	White	52	M	May 10, 1994	Cook		33 murder victims [a]	James Edgar
3	James P. Free Jr. [3] [4]	White	41	M	March 22, 1995	DuPage		Bonnie Serpico
4	Hernando Williams	Black	40	M		Cook		Linda Goldstone
5	Girvies Davis	Black	37	M	May 17, 1995	St. Clair		4 murder victims [b]
6	Charles Albanese	White	58	M	September 20, 1995	McHenry		Michael Albanese, Marion Mueller, and Mary Lambert
7	George Del Vecchio	White	47	M	November 22, 1995	Cook		Tony Conzoneri
8	Raymond Lee Stewart	Black	44	M	September 18, 1996	Winnebago		6 murder victims [c]
9	Walter Stewart	Black	42	M	November 19, 1997	Cook		Thomas Paviopoulos and Dinalo Rodica
10	Durlyn Eddmonds	Black	42	M				Richard Lee Miller
11	Lloyd Wayne Hampton	White	44	M	January 21, 1998 [d]	Madison		Roy Pendleton
12	Andrew Kokoraleis	White	35	M	March 17, 1999 [e]	Cook		Lorraine Ann Borowski	George Ryan

Abolition of death penalty

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. ^[5]

See also

• Capital punishment in Illinois
• Capital punishment in the United States

Notes

1. See: List of Victims of John Wayne Gacy
2. The 4 victims were: Charles Biebel, John Oertel, Frank Cash, and Esther Sepmeyer.
3. the 6 victims were: Willie Fredd, Albert Pearson, Kevin Kaiser, Kenny Faust, Richard Boeck, and Donald Rains, the latter 2 victims were killed in Wisconsin.
4. This was the last execution held at the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill.
5. This was the first and only execution held at the Tamms Correctional Center in Tamms.

References

1. "Execution Database | Death Penalty Information Center". Death Penalty Information Center. Retrieved June 7, 2023.
2. "Alton Coleman #771". www.clarkprosecutor.org. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
3. Terry, Don (March 23, 1995). "2 Executions In Illinois, Rarity There". The New York Times.
4. article, Susan Kuczka and Gary Marx, Tribune Staff Writers Tribune reporters Janan Hanna, Christi Parsons and Suzy Frisch contributed to this (March 22, 1995). "DUPAGE KILLER EXECUTED". chicagotribune.com.
5. "Quinn signs death penalty ban, commutes 15 death row sentences to life". Chicago Tribune . March 9, 2011. Retrieved March 9, 2011.