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Girvies Davis – Serial killer who killed at least four people during robberies. Executed in 1995. Davis's younger accomplice, Richard Holman, is serving a life sentence, avoiding execution since he was a month shy of turning 18. Raymond Lee Stewart – Spree killer who killed six people. Executed in 1996.
He was executed by lethal injection at Stateville Correctional Center at the age of 50, becoming the first person to be executed in Illinois since 1962. [2] [3] The execution was considered botched because the lethal injection machine was unable to make the drugs go through the kinked lines. [4] [5] [6] [7]
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.
Rockford man killed his six children (ages 3 to 12) and the family dog [15] Latin Kings murders: Chicago: 1979-02-25: 3: Three teenagers were found with their throats slashed in a car in Chicago. They were murdered after asking Latin Kings members where they could buy marijuana. [16] Kenneth Allen: Chicago: 1979-03-03: 2: Convicted of killing ...
The Illinois Department of Corrections and the state Capital Development Board, which oversees the design and construction of state facilities, have tapped the Chicago engineering and construction ...
Body-camera footage showing the fatal police shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who had called 911 for help, was released Monday in a case that has led to murder charges against a ...
Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the three on the night of July 13–14, 1966.
Family in ‘in shock, dismay, mourning’ following Illinois police shooting of man inside his home Rebekah Riess, Whitney Wild and Bill Kirkos, CNN March 3, 2024 at 12:27 PM