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Where Did Illinois’ Death Penalty Cases Originate Before Abolition, 2001-2010?

By Kirk Jenkins on September 9, 2019
Posted in Areas of the Law

Last time, we reviewed the data tracking the incidence of Illinois’ death penalty cases between 1990 and 2000.  In this post, we’re looking at the final years of Illinois’ death penalty, from 2001 to the Court’s last death penalty case in 2010.

Between 1990 and 2000, Cook County dominated the death penalty docket.  By 2001, …

Where Did Illinois’ Death Penalty Cases Originate Before Abolition, 1990-2000?

By Kirk Jenkins on September 9, 2019
Posted in Areas of the Law

As our examination of the geography of the Court’s docket continues, this post and next we’ll be looking at which counties accounted for the Court’s death penalty cases prior to abolition in July 2011.

Not surprisingly, Cook County accounted for the vast majority of the death sentences reviewed by the Court: twelve in 1990, six …

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In the next few years, data analytics will revolutionize litigation. At the Illinois Supreme Court Review, we’ve mined dozens of data points from every one of the nearly 2,900 decisions handed down by the Illinois Supreme Court from 1990 through 2017. We use that unique database to share new insights culled from tens of thousands of pages of opinions about the Justices and their decision-making process, the parties and issues which come before the Court.

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