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Charles Thomas Walker (April 28, 1940 – September 12, 1990) was an American convicted murderer who was executed in 1990 by the state of Illinois for the June 1983 murders of Kevin Paule, 21, and his fiancée Sharon Winker, 25, of Mascoutah.
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.
He became the first person to be executed in Illinois since 1962. John Wayne Gacy – Serial killer and rapist convicted of the murders and rapes of 33 boys and young men in 1980. Transferred from the Menard Correctional Center to Stateville Correctional Center for execution by lethal injection on May 9, 1994, and declared dead at 12:58 a.m ...
The five victims killed on Friday after a truck crash led to a toxic gas leak in rural Illinois included three members of a young local family, along with a 67-year-old from neighbouring Missouri ...
Five people killed after a multi-vehicle crash in Illinois died from exposure to a toxic chemical that spilled from an overturned semi-truck, the Effingham County Coroner’s Office said Tuesday.
Raymond Lee Stewart (January 21, 1952 – September 18, 1996) was an American robber and spree killer who murdered six people during a week-long rampage in Rockford, Illinois and Beloit, Wisconsin in 1981. Stewart was sentenced to death for the murders he committed in Illinois and was executed in 1996 at Stateville Correctional Center. [1]
A semi-truck crash had deadly consequences as thousands of pounds of anhydrous ammonia leaked onto an interstate in Illinois. Kelly Rissman reports Toxic gas from a tanker truck crash killed five ...
Chicago police shot and killed 10 unarmed demonstrators during Little Steel strike [8] James Morelli: Chicago: 1947-12-12: 3: Mad Dog killings [9] [10] Murder of the Grimes sisters: Chicago: 1956-12-28: 2: Sisters ages 12 and 15 disappeared returning home from movie theater, bodies discovered three weeks later [11] [12] Chester Weger: Starved ...