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The prosecutors, who named him as the "face of the death penalty," expressed their hope that his case could help sway opinion in favor against the 2000 moratorium on the death penalty in the state. [3] However, in 2011, capital punishment was abolished under Governor Pat Quinn, resulting in the commutation of Paul Runge's death sentence. [4]
Andre Crawford (March 20, 1962 – March 18, 2017) was an American serial killer, rapist and necrophile who killed 11 women between 1993 and 1999 in Chicago. Many of the women were addicted to drugs or worked as sex workers. He also had sex with their corpses. [3]
Footwork, also called juke, [2] or Chicago juke, is a genre of electronic dance music derived from ghetto house with elements of hip hop, first appearing in Chicago in the late 1990s. [3] The music style evolved from the earlier, rapid rhythms of ghetto house , a change pioneered by RP Boo , DJ Rashad and DJ Clent.
James Liebman, a professor of law at Columbia Law School, stated in 1996 that his study found that when habeas corpus petitions in death penalty cases were traced from conviction to completion of the case, there was "a 40 percent success rate in all capital cases from 1978 to 1995". [163]
The Ripper Crew or the Chicago Rippers was an organized crime group of serial killers, cannibals, rapists, and necrophiles. The group was composed of Robin Gecht [ 1 ] and three associates: Edward Spreitzer and brothers Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis. [ 2 ]
Dana Ewell was the younger of two children born to Glee Ethel (née Mitchell) (b. 1935) and Dale Alan Ewell (b. 1932).Dale Ewell was a United States Air Force veteran turned multi-millionaire businessman who specialized in the sale of small airplanes with his company, Western Piper Sales, Inc. [3] Glee Ewell had devoted much of her life to philanthropy and public service, briefly acting as a ...
Teklife (commonly stylized as Teklife57) is an electronic music collective and record label from Chicago, Illinois.The group was founded by Rashad Harden and Morris Harper (DJ Spinn) in 2011 in the city's suburbs, but rapidly gained traction among international audiences for pioneering the dance music genre footwork (also known as Chicago juke), a sped-up derivation Ghetto house which itself ...
Throughout the 1990s, she regularly called the one detective still assigned to the case, offering possible leads she had learned of or asking for any new information he could share. [10] She gathered 3,000 signatures from area residents on a petition to The Oprah Winfrey Show , asking producers to do a segment on the killings of her son and his ...