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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.
Chicago teen wrongly convicted of murder based on blind witness finally walks free after 12 years ... (CBS News) A man who spent his ... Darien Harris was only 17 years old when he was wrongfully ...
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 ...
Pendleton, a 15-year-old girl from Chicago, Illinois, was shot in the back and killed while standing with friends inside Harsh Park in Kenwood, Chicago after taking her final exams. [1] As a student at King College Prep High School, she was killed only one week after performing at events for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration.
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 ...
Illinois used death by hanging as a form of execution until 1928. The last person executed by this method was the public execution of Charles Birger the same year. After being struck down by Furman v. Georgia in 1972, the death penalty was reinstated in Illinois on July 1, 1974, but voided by the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1975. Illinois ...
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.
A Chicago teenager is in a coma and three of his family members are dead after the group was shot at while vacationing in Mexico last week, according to the U.S. State Department and local reports ...