Kidnapped Michelle Thompson, 21, outside a Gurnee bar, then raped and strangled her Feb. 4, 1984. 115) James Tenner, 46. 75) Andrew Kokoraleis, 27. 7 and 8) Juan Caballero, 29, and Luis Ruiz, 30. Henderson stabbed Boyd 37 times and ran over her three times in a car. On Dec. 22, 1980, shot Gerald Holton, 31, and Arthur Sheppard, 39, two Markham drug dealers who had been infringing on the territory of a drug-selling gang with which Thompkins was affiliated. Rape, murder, necrophilia, seven female victims, six convictions. Murdered five women between September 2002 and April 2003. See also. 57) Dewayne Britz, 28. 1 /18. The murder went unsolved until Aug. 6, 1986, when Pecoraro flagged down a Chicago police car and said, ''I want to turn myself in for a murder.''. In September of that year, Djerf entered the Luna home and killed Luna's father, mother, and two siblings over the course of several hours. 49) Dino Titone, 30. Axing and stabbing of Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their daughter Jessica, and their son Joshua's friend Christopher Hughes. Illinois Death Penalty Exonerations. Serial killer from 1997 to 2003, killed twelve people. Moss is the only woman on death row in Georgia. 67) Robert Turner, 31. A problematic conviction and rejected appeals led to her case being covered in the 2020 documentary. Stabbed Darlene Dudeck, 38, to death Nov. 26, 1986, in Aurora during a burglary. A full list is externally linked: Due to the high number of Alabama death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. Robbed and killed at least four elderly women between 1988 and 1989. Fatally shot his brother, his future brother-in-law, and two of his brother's friends. Convicted of participating in the murder of a Corrections Officer. Since the veto had previously been overridden by the state House of Representatives, the bill immediately became law and repealed capital punishment, replacing it with life in prison without the possibility of parole. 20) Robin Owens, 29. 116) Anthony Mitchell, 20. An initial execution date was set upon conviction for September 13, 2018, but the execution was stayed due to a pending appeal to the. Ismael Hernandez Vallejo was given a fifty-year prison sentence. There are 126 men facing the death penalty in the state-68 inmates at Pontiac Correctional Center and 58 inmates at Menard . Three other children were found seriously injured at the house. 74) Edward Spreitzer, 29. Still, the mandatory use of prolonged isolation for death row inmates is widespread in the U.S. Of the 2,802 state prisoners currently condemned to death, 61 percent are isolated for 20 hours or more a day, according to a Marshall Project survey of state corrections officials. Additionally suspected of a murder in 1994, but never charged. 18 Eerie Pictures From San Quentin's Death Row The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). 59) Darryl Simms, 29. Twice convicted of murder and twice released from prison, he fatally shot Virdeen Willis Jr., 45, an assistant warden at Pontiac state prison, June 30, 1985, outside a South Side bar. Dawson had responded to a call of two men lurking near a Wheeling apartment complex. The killings were committed less than a month after being paroled from a. Raped and murdered six to seven sex workers between 1986 and 1987. Fatally shot and decapitated Michael David Miley, 23, of Murphysboro, April 6, 1988. A full list is externally linked: Due to the high number of California death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. George Ryan cleared death row in January 2003. Broke into a Mattoon apartment June 7, 1983, and slashed to death Carol Specht, 44. Stabbed Margaret Dare to death during a Jan. 25, 1982, burglary of the elderly woman`s rural Jefferson County home. The murdered police officer was the mother of. He had previously been convicted for the murder of a woman in Washington State and was serving a 25-year sentence. Okla. pardon board votes against recommending clemency for death row inmate. He also shot and paralyzed Gobert's girlfriend during the altercation. 85) Paul West, 30. Murdered three teenagers, including his half-sister, during a two-week killing spree in May 1984. Times Staff Writer. Merritt was convicted of torturing and murdering his business partner, Joseph McStay, Joseph's wife Summer, and their two young sons. Capital punishment has been abolished in New Hampshire, but only for new sentences. His execution was later suspended due to an oversight in the preparation for lethal injection in another execution. Stabbed two people Aug. 13, 1979, inside a South Side lounge during a robbery, then set fire to the building, killing one of the stabbing victims, Delinda Byrd, 22. Murder of Miki Martinez and Darren Wormkey in February 2004. Fatally shot Valerie McDonald, 37, outside her North Side apartment June 23, 1987, in exchange for $400 from the girlfriend of McDonald`s husband. He was released on December 11, 1997, but was sentenced to death on November 9, 1999, after he confessed to murdering Terry Sims. Brown then made numerous calls to the, Murder of four women and one man in 19791980 on hiking trails near. Strangled and stabbed Sandra Shelton, 32, July 12, 1989, in Beckemeyer, while trying to rape her. Comparatively, 12.19% of U.S. adults have less than a high school diploma or GED. Scheduled to be executed on January 7, 2026. Coleman was executed Wednesday night in Texas. Raped, strangled and burned the bodies of four females between 2006 and 2009. Stabbed four people to death to eliminate witnesses to a Sept. 24, 1986, break-in at a West Side Chicago Housing Authority apartment. Killed a Cleveland police officer during a traffic stop in 2000. Autopsies revealed the children were alive when the fire was set. Murdered three young boys including his friend's younger brother. 103) David Smith, 27. 29) Raymond Stewart, 38. Kidnapped, raped and murdered a teenage girl. Murdered three men during an attempted robbery of an automobile body shop. 28) Willie Thompkins, 40. He is a suspect in at least ten other homicides, rapes and disappearances. A jury of 8 men and 4 women returned a death sentence in 6 hours after hearing two weeks of testimony in 2011 on the death of Jeanette Maples at the hands of her mother, Angela McAnulty. In October 2017, he appealed death sentence with arguments whether he is, He sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections on the grounds that execution by lethal injection using the cocktail prescribed by Kentucky law constitutes, Kidnapped, robbed and shot two 17-year-old. 36) Anthony Guest, 44. Eduardo Navarro, an accomplice, was 15 at the time of the crimes but was, Robbed and murdered his elderly neighbors in, Murdered his ex-wife's sister, her husband and four of their children in.