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  2. List of people executed in Illinois - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Killing of Zheng Shaoxiong - Wikipedia

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    The murder of Zheng Shaoxiong occurred in Chicago, United States on November 9, 2021, when Dennis Zheng Shaoxiong, a 24-year-old graduate at the University of Chicago, [1] was fatally shot by Alton Spann, a 19-year-old Chicago resident, on the sidewalk in the 900 block of East 54th Street in Hyde Park. [2] Court documents say that when Spann ...

  4. Terri Schiavo case - Wikipedia

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    e. The Terri Schiavo case was a series of court and legislative actions in the United States from 1998 to 2005, regarding the care of Theresa Marie Schiavo (née Schindler) ( / ˈʃaɪvoʊ /; December 3, 1963 – March 31, 2005), a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state. Schiavo's husband and legal guardian argued that Schiavo ...

  5. List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

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    The case of her death was rumored as poisoning, but later changed into "natural causes," according to David Starr Jordan. Who or what killed Stanford is still a mystery. [237] L. R. Davis 1906 The 76-year-old inmate of the state insane asylum in Norfolk, Nebraska, was granted a parole. Upon seeing his grandson, who had come to take him home ...

  6. Murder of the Grimes sisters - Wikipedia

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    Murder victims. The murder of the Grimes sisters is an unsolved double murder that occurred in Chicago, Illinois, on December 28, 1956, in which two sisters named Barbara and Patricia Grimes—aged 15 and 12 [ n 2] respectively—disappeared while traveling from a Brighton Park movie theater to their home in McKinley Park.

  7. Murder of Joseph Wallace - Wikipedia

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    Cause of death. hanging. Joseph Wayne Wallace (July 29, 1989 – April 19, 1993) was a three-year-old boy who was murdered by his mother in their Chicago, Illinois apartment in 1993. Wallace's mother, Amanda Wallace (July 24, 1965 – August 3, 1997), was known to be mentally ill. Despite this, Joseph and his younger brother Joshua were removed ...

  8. Manner of death - Wikipedia

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    Manner of death. In many legal jurisdictions, the manner of death is a determination, typically made by the coroner, medical examiner, police, or similar officials, and recorded as a vital statistic. Within the United States and the United Kingdom, a distinction is made between the cause of death, which is a specific disease or injury, versus ...

  9. Murder of Laquan McDonald - Wikipedia

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    The case marked the first time in nearly 35 years that a Chicago police officer had been charged with first-degree murder for an on-duty fatality. [75] On March 23, 2017, the charges against Van Dyke were six counts of first degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery, one for each shot fired at Laquan McDonald. [84]