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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.
Andrews, a biology major who played bassoon in the college band, was described by his hometown newspaper as "The Nicest Boy in Wolcott". [1] In reality, the 18-year-old entertained fantasies of poisoning his family and moving to Chicago, Illinois, to become a gangster and professional hitman.
Three-year-old boy murdered by mentally-ill mother: Robert Sandifer: Chicago: 1994-09-01: 11-year-old boy known as "Yummy" killed by fellow gang members out of fear he could become an informant: Murder of Eric Morse: Chicago: 1994-10-13: Five-year-old African-American boy dropped from a high-rise in the Ida B. Wells Homes by a 10- and 11-year ...
The release of 409 prisoners would represent 1.37% of the statewide prison population of 29,828 that was listed as of Dec. 31. The Department of Corrections reports that since 2013, the overall ...
He became acting boss when the boss of the family, his father John Gotti, was sent to prison. The younger Gotti was imprisoned for racketeering in 1999, and between 2004 and 2009 he was a defendant in four racketeering trials, each of which ended in a mistrial. In January 2010, federal prosecutors announced that they would no longer seek to ...
Body camera footage of a March police shooting that killed a 57-year-old man and a 4-year-old boy has been released by police in Macomb, Illinois. Video shows moments before man, boy killed by ...
Robert Sandifer was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 12, 1983. Sandifer's mother, Lorina Sandifer, had over 30 arrests while prostituting, [ 7 ] many of which were drug-related. Sandifer's father, Robert Akins, was absent throughout Sandifer's life due to incarceration for a felony gun charge.
Smith was born at the Illinois Masonic Hospital, to marine Charles Gilbert Smith and Delores Rechlin, who had another four children. The couple separated when Mark was 2 to 3 years old, with his mother receiving primary custody. At the age of 7, his mother remarried, and the family moved out to McHenry County, Illinois, where Smith grew up. He ...