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Chester Otto Weger (born March 3, 1939) [1] is an American man who was convicted in 1961 of the murder of one of three women found slain at Starved Rock State Park the previous year. He was held at Pinckneyville Correctional Center and at one time was the longest serving inmate incarcerated by the State of Illinois as well as the third longest ...
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.
Pages in category "Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Illinois" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Brown’s case has bounced around Illinois’ judicial system for years, having been in front of the Illinois Supreme Court in 2020 and 2022. ... whose corruption sentence was commuted by ...
A judge sentenced a former Illinois state child welfare worker to six months in jail Thursday in connection with a 5-year-old boy's death. Lake County Associate Judge George Strickland also ...
] The witness described the man as 5 feet, 9 inches tall, 170 pounds, 35 years old and wearing a light-colored fedora and a dark overcoat, but the witness could not discern the man's face. The witness could not identify Heirens from a photo as the man whom he had seen, but a few days later, he identified Heirens in person at a court hearing.
(The Center Square) – The Illinois Supreme Court is considering whether to find a state firearms statute prohibiting open carry unconstitutional in the case Illinois v. Tyshon Thompson. Thompson ...
Morgan v. Illinois, 504 U.S. 719 (1992), is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court. The case established the right of defendants to challenge for cause any juror that would automatically impose the death penalty in all capital cases.