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A teenager was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old Chicago boy who was not the intended target of gunfire earlier in the week, police said. “There is no excuse for this ...
Chicago’s “failed approaches…have brought trauma to communities across the city.” More from National Review. Chicago Aldermen Grill Mayor Lightfoot over Refusal to Deploy National Guard Widely
Teens who stomped coyote to death face unlawful hunting charges, more Officers cited the juveniles, all age 16 and 17, and officials said they are slated to appear in Cook County court on Feb. 26 ...
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.
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.
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 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 ...
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 ...