Gov. Bruce Rauner’s ham-handed effort to reinstate the Illinois death penalty for mass murderers and cop killers is a naked political ploy that has little to no chance of becoming law. Thank ...

Illinois has continued to send inmates to death row during the moratorium, with 15 there now. If the death penalty is abolished in Illinois, those 15 could, in theory, still face execution, since ...

``Illinois stands out because it was a state that used it, reconsidered it and now rejected it,'' said Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington.

Background records of police recruits in Illinois must be available to a prospective employer under a new law in response to ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- The Illinois Death Penalty Commission, which was created when Gov. George Ryan declared a moratorium on executions two years ago, has agreed to recommend dozens of changes ...

Urdiales previously was sentenced to death for killing three women in Illinois in 2002, but that sentence was commuted to life without parole after that state barred the death penalty.

MARKHAM -- Prosecutors announced Tuesday they no longer plan to seek the death penalty against a Burbank handyman accused of murdering a guest at a Crestwood hotel in 1996.

The Justice Department on Wednesday filed hate crime charges against the man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staffers ...

CHICAGO - Calling the death penalty process "as capricious and arbitrary as who gets hit by a bolt of lightning," Gov. George Ryan announced Saturday he was clearing Illinois' death row by ...