Report of the Commission on Capital Punishment
April 2002

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  PREAMBLE
  MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
  COMMISSION STAFF
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
  CHAPTER 2 – POLICE AND PRETRIAL INVESTIGATIONS
  CHAPTER 3 – DNA AND FORENSIC TESTING
  CHAPTER 4 – ELIGIBILITY FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
  CHAPTER 5 – PROSECUTORS’ SELECTION OF CASES FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
  CHAPTER 6 – TRIAL JUDGES
  CHAPTER 7 – TRIAL LAWYERS
  CHAPTER 8 – PRETRIAL PROCEEDINGS
  CHAPTER 9 – THE GUILT-INNOCENCE PHASE
  CHAPTER 10 – THE SENTENCING PHASE
  CHAPTER 11 – IMPOSITION OF SENTENCE
  CHAPTER 12 – PROCEEDINGS FOLLOWING CONVICTION AND SENTENCE
  CHAPTER 13 – FUNDING
  CHAPTER 14 – GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS
  CONCLUSION
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  APPENDIX
 

CONTENTS

 

 
1. Governor’s Executive order creating Commission
 
2. Illinois Death Penalty statute
 
3. Eligibility factors and legislative amendments through 2001
 
4. Summary of state capital murder provisions and aggravating/mitigating factor provisions
 
5. Summary Table 1 - Reversals in Illinois Death penalty cases
 

6. Summary Table 2 - Resentencings in Illinois Death penalty cases

 

7. Summary Table 3 - Eligibility factors in Illinois Death penalty cases

 

8. Criminal Procedure and Investigation Act 1996

 

9. Draft Attorney General’s Guidelines on Disclosure

 

10. New Jersey Attorney General Guidelines on Lineup procedures

 

11. Chicago Police Department General Order 88-18, Lineup procedures

 

12. New Jersey Guidelines for County Prosecutors