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Capital punishment was a legal form of punishment in the U.S. state of Illinois until 2011 when it was abolished. ==History== Illinois used the hanging as a method of killing up to 1928 (the last execution, that of Charles Birger, was public), when the electric chair was substituted for it. Lethal injection was adopted in the state in 1990, but the electric chair remains operational in Illinois to replace lethal injection, when it may be practiced, which never happened. Illinois was until 2003 a state like others where the death penalty was restored, over 170 people had been convicted and 12 were executed in the 1990s (5 in 1995). In 1998, Anthony Porter escaped execution at nearly 50 hours on the basis of its inability to understand the meaning of the sentence of his IQ and then, shortly after, released on the basis of evidence gathered by a team of journalism students; this switching, preceded and followed by other (20 in total), was born doubts about the state's judicial system. On 11 January 2003 the Republican Governor George Ryan commuted the sentences of 167 condemned to death in life sentences or, 3 of them in 40 years, a gesture that his opponents attribute to the fact that he was rendered ineligible by his unpopularity and charged with conspiracy, racketeering and fraud. 14 people were sentenced to death and many reforms have been undertaken, notably under the leadership of Senator Barack Obama has passed a law requiring police to videotape interrogations in capital cases. Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation on March 9, 2011 to abolish the death penalty in Illinois, and commuted the death sentences of the fifteen inmates on Illinois' death row to life imprisonment. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Capital punishment in Illinois」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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