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Illinois and the Death Penalty

Illinois allows the death penalty as an option in murder cases which are accompanied by at least one of 12 aggravating factors.

The sentence is death by lethal injection.

Minimum age for death penalty: 16 years

Executions 1930-1976: 91

Executions since 1977: 11


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