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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (/ l ə ˈ v w ɑː z i eɪ / lə-VWAH-zee-ay; [1] [2] [3] French: [ɑ̃twan lɔʁɑ̃ də lavwazje]; 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), [4] also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
This is a list of homicides in Illinois. This list includes notable homicides committed in the U.S. state of Illinois that have a Wikipedia article on the killing, the killer, or the victim. It is divided into five subject areas as follows: Multiple homicides – homicides having multiple victims.
This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. [1] All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. [2] Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.
Hans Vollenweider (1940) last execution in Switzerland; Charles Walker (1990) first post-Gregg execution in Illinois; Berthold Wehmeyer (1949) Keith Wells (1994) first post-Gregg execution in Idaho; Thomas Whelan (1921) Jerry White (1995) Alfred Charles Whiteway (1953) Dennis Whitty (1963) Keith Daniel Williams (1996) Marcel Wayne Williams ...
A man who fatally shot eight people in Illinois over the weekend before taking own life as law enforcement closed in on him in Texas was a family relative to most of his victims, but his motives ...
List of people executed in Illinois; ... List of white defendants executed for killing a black victim; See also. List of executions in Japan
The perpetrator, 23-year-old Romeo Nance, who was related to seven of the victims, fatally shot himself a day later after being confronted by law enforcement officials near Natalia, Texas. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is the deadliest mass shooting in the United States for 2024, as well as the deadliest in Illinois history, surpassing the shootings in ...
He was sentenced to death in May 2000 for the murder of Dr Benton, and he was executed on 27 June 2006. At the time of his death, he had been linked to at least 15 murders.