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Chicago teen wrongly convicted of murder based on blind witness finally walks free after 12 years ... Darien Harris was only 17 years old when he was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder in ...
An Illinois father has been convicted of beating his teenage daughter to death following an argument the two had regarding her prom in 2022.. Mohammed Almaru, 42, of Tinley Park was found guilty ...
A 17-year-old Chicago teenager shot and killed a 16-year-old boy near the Bean sculpture in downtown Millennium Park, according to police.
Anthony Porter (December 14, 1954 – July 25, 2021) was a Chicago resident known for having been exonerated in 1999 of the murder in 1982 of two teenagers on the South Side of the city. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1983, and served 17 years on death row.
In June 1996, Amanda Wallace was convicted of her son's murder. She avoided the death penalty which had been sought by the state of Illinois and was instead sentenced to life imprisonment. [3] Amanda died from suicide by hanging in her prison cell on August 3, 1997. [4] Joshua, Amanda Wallace's surviving son, spent years stuck in the child ...
Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 [12] when the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty did not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, 22 people have been executed for crimes committed while they were under the age of 18. All of the 22 executed individuals were males, and all were ...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...
The amateur video footage of the beating, obtained by Chicago television station WFLD, was widely broadcast in both traditional and online media. [8] Largely resulting from the widespread circulation of this video, the story attracted much national attention within the United States, leading President Barack Obama to send U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ...