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    Crime victim rights advocates seek constitutional amendment

    Illinois advocacy groups have joined a national push to amend state constitutions and give teeth to statutes already on the books. Few share Rotheimer’s goal, to make prosecutors personally liable for violating crime victims’ rights. But most share a desire to allow victims a voice during the judicial process.

    The Illinois Coalition for Enforceable Victims Rights has proposed its version of a constitutional amendment approved by California voters in 2008, called Marsy’s Law.

    For years, the criminal justice system worked at making the process fair for the accused, advocates say. Now crime victims want more control within the process.

    The brother of murder victim Donna Schnorr, for instance, would have liked to have had input on the plea deal offered to confessed murderer Brian Dugan when he was initially sentenced in 1985 to two life sentences in prison for the murders of Schnorr and a 7-year-old girl. Later, Dugan was given the death penalty for the murder of Jeanine Nicarico, 10, of Naperville, but was spared execution when Illinois abolished capital punishment.

    “We would have preferred to have a say-so in the sentencing,” said Roger Schnorr, of Aurora, who wanted the death penalty for Dugan. “He clearly is the guilty party and deserved much worse than what he received.”

    http://triblocal.com/aurora/2011/11/...nal-amendment/

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    Haine to Reintroduce Death Penalty Legislation

    State Senator Bill Haine of Alton is a former Madison County State's Attorney, and says prosecutors around the state need to have the death penalty available in their arsenal of available punishments. Haine is prepared to introduce legislation this fall to make capital punishment available in Illinois in a select number of cases.

    He points to recent violent incidents as reasons why it should be on the table.

    Former Governor George Ryan issued a moratorium on the practice near the end of his term, and current Governor Pat Quinn did away with the practice all together last year.

    (source: Alton Daily News)
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    With all the violent murders they have in Chicago they really need to bring back the DP!

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    GOP gov candidates want death penalty reinstated

    The Republican candidates for Illinois governor say they're in favor of reinstating the death penalty in the state.

    The candidates spoke Tuesday at a forum hosted by WMAQ-TV. They are state Sens. Kirk Dillard and Bill Brady, businessman Bruce Rauner (ROW'-nur) and Illinois Treasurer Dan Rutherford (ROOTH'-ur-furd).

    Illinois abolished the death penalty in 2011. That was after former Gov. George Ryan halted all executions in Illinois in 2003 over fears that a flawed system had led to wrongful convictions of death row inmates.

    Rutherford and Brady say it should be reinstated.

    Dillard says it should be kept for the worst of the worst criminals. Rauner says it could be brought back for certain criminals.

    http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/G...ed-5289079.php

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    State Representative Wants to Bring Back Death Penalty

    The death penalty was first outlawed in Illinois back in 2011.

    But just last week, a state representative from northern Illinois introduced a bill with one goal: re-instate the death penalty.

    "I think it's time to start a discussion, so that we have tools in place, God forbid, anything major happens," John Cabello, R-68, said.

    He wants to bring back the death penalty but with some tweaking.

    The bill would open up the death penalty to someone who may have killed a first responder, someone who killed multiple people -- along with terrorists and someone who killed a child under the age of 12.

    "If your child is killed, what do you want to happen to the person that murdered your child?" he said.

    Cabello admits some mechanisms will have to be put in place to make sure no innocent person is put to death.

    But he just wants to have the option.

    "I believe we should have tools necessary to make sure that we have everything on the table that we need on the table," he said.

    Cabello says the bill is bipartisan, and he hopes to grow support in the coming days. "Is it going to move today, is it going to move tomorrow? No. we need to start that discussion."

    http://www.centralillinoisproud.com/...KEe7jtJF-ZRdsQ
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    The question is whether the Democratic Speaker of the House, Mike Madigan, will support this bill. Absolutely nothing passes in Illinois unless he is behind it.

    It's not for nothing that Illinois is also known as Madiganistan.

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    Haine to reintroduce death penalty legislation in wake of police and mass shootings

    State Sen. Bill Haine (D-Alton) said he intends to file legislation to restore the death penalty in limited cases involving "the most evil of crimes."

    “As a former State’s Attorney, I understand the complexities of seeking the death penalty for individuals who have committed heinous crimes,” Haine stated in a press release.

    “I have been shocked and appalled by the recent killings we have seen in churches and of police officers. The reality is there are some crimes in which the death penalty should be an option for a jury of our citizens to consider. Those who take the life of officers, or engage in mass killings, need to face the appropriate consequences.”

    According to a press release, Haine plans to reintroduce legislation he had proposed in 2013 in the wake of a "series of atrocious murders across the country, including the murder of a police officer in Illinois."

    The original legislation came out of death penalty reform proposals from the Illinois Capital Punishment Reform Study Committee, the release states.

    Provisions of the legislation would give state's attorneys the ability to seek the death penalty in first-degree murder cases by requiring them to provide notice of intent to seek or decline the death penalty as soon as possible.

    The legislation would outline specific crimes which would be eligible to receive the death penalty such as; serial killings, heinous murders of a child, seniors or a person with a disability, murders of witnesses, correctional officers and law enforcement officials.

    The release states that Haine plans to file the legislation when the state senate reconvenes in the coming weeks.

    http://madisonrecord.com/stories/510...mass-shootings
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    Illinois governor wants to reinstate death penalty for cop killers, mass murderers

    CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner announced Monday that he wants to bring back the death penalty in Illinois for mass murderers and people who kill law enforcement officers, more than 18 years after capital punishment was effectively banned in the state.

    Illinois hasn't put a criminal to death since 1999's execution of Andrew Kokoraleis, a member of a satanic gang that raped, mutilated and murdered as many as 20 women in the Chicago area in the early 1980s. Soon after Kokoraleis’ execution, then-governor George Ryan, a Republican, declared a moratorium on executions in the spate of wrongful convictions that had put a dozen men on Illinois' death row.

    In March 2011, then-Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, signed a bill officially ending capital punishment in Illinois and simultaneously commuted the sentences of 15 prisoners.

    “These individuals who commit mass murders, these individuals who choose to murder a law enforcement officer, they deserve to have their life taken,” Rauner said.

    Under the GOP governor's proposal, death penalty suspects would have to be convicted by juries “beyond all doubt,” not just “beyond a reasonable doubt” required for guilty findings of other criminal offenses. The proposal also outlines that the state’s appeals courts would have to apply the same standard and conduct an independent review of the evidence with no deference paid to a jury’s decision.

    “We want to raise the standard because we recognize legitimate concerns about the death penalty,” Rauner said. “We are intent on avoiding wrongful convictions and the injustice of inconsistency.”

    The proposal to bring back the death penalty to Illinois was made as part of an amendatory veto of state legislation that would have implemented a 72-hour waiting period for assault weapons in Illinois.

    Presently, 36 states have either abolished the death penalty, have executions on hold or have not carried out an execution in at least five years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

    Nationally, Americans support the death penalty by a 55%-41%, according to an October Gallup poll. It marked the lowest level of support for capital punishment since 1972, according to Gallup.

    Rauner’s veto expands that waiting period proposal to all gun sales in Illinois, not just assault weapons.

    State law currently requires a 72-hour waiting period for the sale of all handguns and a 24-hour waiting period for rifles, shotguns and long guns.

    The governor’s push to reinstate the death penalty in Illinois comes as he faces a well-funded Democratic challenger, billionaire entrepreneur J.B. Pritzker, in November’s gubernatorial election.

    Rauner, 61, a wealthy former private equity executive who was elected to office in 2014, escaped a tough challenge in the GOP primary in March from state Rep. Jeanne Ives, a conservative lawmaker from the Chicago suburb of Wheaton who argued Rauner was not taking a conservative enough tact on issues such as abortion, gun ownership and immigration.

    Pritzker, 53, a venture capitalist and an heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune who Forbes estimates has a net worth of $3.5 billion, has already staked his campaign nearly $70 million. Rauner, meanwhile, has poured $50 million into his own re-election bid.

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    How the death penalty was abolished in Illinois

    The Chicago Tribune

    Gov. Bruce Rauner's proposal to reinstate Illinois' death penalty for mass killers and people who slay law enforcement officers thrust the issue back into the spotlight.

    The state of Illinois had 12 executions after reinstating the death penalty in 1977, though the last execution was in 1999 prior to Gov. George Ryan's moratorium.



    In 2011, Illinois became the 16th state to stop using capital punishment. But the process of abolishing the death penalty took more than a decade and included a moratorium that spanned three governors.

    Feb. 5, 1999
    Anthony Porter is released from prison after serving 17 years for a double murder that another man later admitted to. The case helps reignite debate about the death penalty in Illinois.

    March 17, 1999
    Andrew Kokoraleis, found guilty in the 1982 murder of an Elmhurst woman, becomes the last person executed in Illinois to date.

    Nov. 14-18, 1999
    A five-day Tribune series examines flaws in Illinois' death penalty system, including faulty evidence, legal incompetence and dishonest trial tactics.

    Jan. 18, 2000
    Steve Manning, a former Chicago police officer, becomes the 13th Illinois death row inmate to be exonerated since 1977.

    Jan. 31, 2000
    Gov. George Ryan announces a moratorium on the death penalty, making Illinois the first state to take such action. Ryan's actions came while he was under federal investigation for unrelated corruption. He later went to federal prison for a corruption scandal that included at least 13 people dying from accidents caused by people who illegally obtained commercial drivers licenses through bribes.

    Jan. 11, 2003
    Two days prior to leaving office, Ryan commutes the sentences of 164 death row inmates to life in prison without parole, citing a system that is "haunted by the demon of error." Ryan pardoned four Death Row inmates, resulting in the release of three. Another three Death Row inmates had their sentences shortened to 40-year terms. The actions take 167 people off of Death Row.

    Nov. 19, 2003
    State lawmakers pass a historic death penalty reform package that includes a ban on capital punishment for defendants with IQs of less than 75.

    May 18, 2005
    A Senate committee votes down proposed legislation, passed by the House, that would have raised the standard of proof for the death penalty to guilt beyond "all doubt."

    Jan. 11, 2011
    The Senate passes legislation abolishing the death penalty in Illinois five days after the House does the same.

    March 9, 2011
    Gov. Pat Quinn signs legislation abolishing the death penalty in Illinois and commutes 15 Illinois inmates on death row to sentences of life without parole.

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...htmlstory.html
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