Illinois executions from 1977 to 2000

These 12 executions were carried out from the time Illinois reinstated the death penalty in 1977 until then-Gov. George Ryan established a moratorium on the death penalty in 2000. Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill Wednesday to abolish the death penalty in Illinois.

Executions:

-- Charles Walker, 50, executed Sept. 12, 1990, for the 1983 murders of Kevin Paule, 21, and Sharon Winker, 25, of Mascoutah.

-- John Wayne Gacy, 52, executed May 10, 1994, for the murders of 33 young men and boys.

-- James Free, 41, executed March 22, 1995, for the April 24, 1978, murder of Bonnie Serpico, 34, of Elmhurst.

-- Hernando Williams, 40, executed March 22, 1995, for the April 1, 1978, murder of Linda Goldstone, 29, of Chicago.

-- Girvies Davis, 37, executed May 17, 1995, for the Dec. 22, 1978, murder of Charles Biebel, 89, of Belleville.

-- Charles Albanese, 58, executed Sept. 20, 1995, for the 1980 murders of his mother-in-law, Marion Mueller, 69; and his wife's grandmother, Mary Lambert, 89; and the 1981 murder of his father, Michael J. Albanese, 69.

-- George Del Vecchio, 47, executed Nov. 22, 1995, for the Dec. 22, 1977, murder of 6-year-old Tony Canzoneri of Chicago.

-- Raymond Lee Stewart, 44, executed Sept. 18 1996, for a week-long shooting spree in 1981 in which six people were killed.

-- Walter Stewart, 42, executed Nov. 19, 1997, for murdering two men and wounding a woman in a Berwyn jewelry store in 1980.

-- Durlynn Eddmonds, 45, executed Nov. 19, 1997, for raping and smothering a 9-year-old boy in 1977.

-- Lloyd Wayne Hampton, 44, executed Jan. 21, 1998, for torturing and killing 69-year-old Roy "Jasper" Pendleton of Troy in 1990.

-- Andrew Kokoraleis, 35, executed on March 17, 1999 for mutilating and murdering 21-year-old Lorraine Borowski.