Burrell and other Exonerated prisoners relayed . 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. Fatally shot Bryan Douglas, 19, a South Chicago Heights gas station attendant, during a robbery Dec. 16, 1986. Kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered 14-year-old, The murder prompted the creation of Ohio Senate Bill 231. Murdered a woman and attempted to murder her friend. He told police he did it because Caleb was misbehaving on the night before the fire. Death row inmates hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy Fatally shot Valerie McDonald, 37, outside her North Side apartment June 23, 1987, in exchange for $400 from the girlfriend of McDonald`s husband. Fatally stabbed fellow Pontiac inmate Thomas Riley Oct. 7, 1984, in a gang dispute. Kidnapped and murdered the wife of a bank executive. Pollard has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Upset that a bartender at a North Side tavern had accused him of stealing marijuana, he shot and killed tavern manager James Cobb, 59, and bar patron Judy Webster, 45, on Oct. 2, 1984. Strangled six sex workers, including a male crossdresser, then had anal sex with their corpses. A full list is externally linked: Due to the high number of Florida death row inmates, only prisoners with Wikipedia pages are listed in this article. Drugged, raped and strangled four women between 1977 and 1994. Vance was tried separately and sentenced to 190 years. A former high school diving champion, he murdered Gilbert Perez, 21, Jan. 1, 1984, on the North Side in a gang dispute. Lives still broken long after killings - Chicago Tribune Shot grocer George Vrabel to death April 1, 1980, during a robbery on the South Side. 15: March 3, 2010 Edward Tenney, for killing a 24-year-old Aurora man during a robbery. He was again convicted of the murder and sentenced to death in 2015. Kidnapped, sexually assaulted and slashed the throat of Amy Schulz, 10, of Kell, July 1, 1987. Murdered two women and a 15-year-old girl, who had been kidnapped and raped. 13) Dennis Emerson, 38. Outgoing Illinois Gov. Only death row inmate in New Hampshire due to the subsequent abolition of capital punishment in the state. Also serving four consecutive life sentences for rapes related to the crimes. JAILED KILLER TAUNTED SLAIN WOMAN'S FAMILY - Chicago Tribune Fatally shot Oliver Ridgell, 42, in his car May 20, 1984, on the South Side after Ridgell refused to light Howard`s cigarette. Murder of Miki Martinez and Darren Wormkey in February 2004. Slashed the throat of 6-year-old Tony Canzoneri during a Northwest Side home invasion Dec. 22, 1977. 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. Kidnapped and murdered Vernita Wheat, 9, May 29, 1984, in Waukegan. Check out more of My Submissions. Manling Tsang Williams Other News. Stabbed four people to death to eliminate witnesses to a Sept. 24, 1986, break-in at a West Side Chicago Housing Authority apartment. Raped and murdered Armanda Kay Burns, 25, April 22, 1983, in her Peoria apartment. Tribune researcher Barbara Sherlock contributed to this list. George Ryan cleared death row in January 2003. In Pictures; The last meals of US prisoners on death row. Smith, a gang member, had recognized Smith, who had subdued his gang`s leader in a 1970s scuffle at the Joliet state prison. Suff and his ex-wife were previously convicted of beating their infant daughter to death. After being led to the manager`s office, he opened fire, killing John Geever, 23, a store employee. Brown posed as a jogger and dragged Jordan, who was on her way to school, into the woods, where he then strangled her with her shoelace. Pettigrew, 41; and Richard Holliman, 28, Nov. 12, 1980, in a South Side viaduct in a dispute over money the victims owed.