Entries tagged with “Governor Pat Quinn”

Mar 09, 2021

NEWS BRIEF — Illinois Marks 10^th Anniversary of Death Penalty Abolition

It has now been ten years since Governor Pat Quinn signed into law a bill end­ing the death penal­ty in Illinois. The abo­li­tion bill, signed on March 9, 2011, was the cul­mi­na­tion of eleven years of debate after Governor Geor…