2011: Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law a bill banning the death penalty in Illinois.

Randy Steidl is one of 20 men who've been exonerated and released from Illinois' death row in recent years. Last Tuesday, he and I sat just a few feet apart when the Illinois Senate passed Senate Bill ...

In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

Illinois Rep. Karen Yarbrough, D-Maywood, discusses Illinois Senate Bill 3539, which she is sponsoring, on the floor of the House of Representatives at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. • The Illinois House on Thursday narrowly approved a measure to abolish the death penalty, a decade after the state put executions on hold after convictions for 13 men on death row ...

The Illinois state senate voted 32-25 to repeal the death penalty! The Illinois house passed the death penalty ban last Thursday. Gov. Pat Quinn must sign the bill for it to become law.

Adam Carrington’s shallow op-ed supporting the death penalty (“Parkland and the flawed argument against capital punishment,” Oct. 17) patronizes people who oppose executions as being “well-meaning” ...