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10 Years Since Last Execution in Illinois

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That's the title of an article by Maurice Possley in the Sunday Chicago Sun-Times.  "Last state execution was March 1999, but fight goes on to abolish death penalty," is the subtitle.Before he was executed on March 17, 1999, convicted murderer Andrew Kokoraleis sat in his cell and wrote a note to his spiritual adviser, Demetrios Kantzavelos, who was then the chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Chicago. Two days later, the card arrived. "It was very haunting," now-Bishop Kantzavelos said. "He thanked me for everything I had done for him, and he wrote that perhaps God might use his execution to finally end all executions in Illinois." No one has been put to death in this state in the decade since Kokoraleis died by lethal injection...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).