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Capital punishment in Illinois (2 C, 12 P) Death in Chicago (2 C, 3 P) D. Deaths in Illinois (8 C) M. Murder in Illinois (7 C, 16 P)
Mayor of Chicago and former US Congressman, murdered at his home by a disappointed office-seeker: Adolph Luetgert: Chicago: 1897-05-01: German-American businessman convicted of murdering his second wife and dissolving her body in a vat filled with lye at his sausage company: Hampton W. Wall: Staunton: 1898-04-15: Illinois legislator murdered by ...
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.
In the latest of an October spate of teen shootings in New York City, two 15-year-olds face charges and another two teens are dead. The first shooting happened the evening of Oct. 16, a New York ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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Mungo was born in Pageland, South Carolina, the son of Martha Lingle and Henry Van Mungo. and began his professional baseball career with the Charlotte Hornets at age 18. A succession of managers over the years, including Casey Stengel, was convinced that the hard-throwing right-hander would be a surefire star for years to come.
Richard Benjamin Speck [2] [3] was born in Kirkwood, Illinois in 1941 and was the seventh of eight children of Benjamin Franklin Speck and Mary Margaret Carbaugh. The family moved to Monmouth, Illinois, shortly after Speck's birth. He and his sister Carolyn (b. 1943) were much younger than their four older sisters and two older brothers.