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Napoleon Beazley (August 5, 1976 – May 28, 2002) was an American convicted murderer executed by lethal injection by the State of Texas for the murder of 63-year-old businessman John Luttig in 1994. [ 1] Beazley, who was then 17, shot Luttig in the head twice in his garage on April 19, 1994, to steal his Mercedes-Benz.
Luttig was born in 1954 in Tyler, Texas.He graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts with Omicron Delta Kappa honors. From 1976 to 1978, Luttig worked for the U.S. Supreme Court's Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice, where he became close friends with Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.
Rockford man killed his six children (ages 3 to 12) and the family dog [15] Latin Kings murders: Chicago: 1979-02-25: 3: Three teenagers were found with their throats slashed in a car in Chicago. They were murdered after asking Latin Kings members where they could buy marijuana. [16] Kenneth Allen: Chicago: 1979-03-03: 2: Convicted of killing ...
FOX 32 News. August 8, 2024 at 5:27 PM. CHICAGO - Murder charges were recently filed in connection with the 2021 murder of a 19-year-old Illinois Army National Guard member. On Thursday, the ...
Fox local. Joanie Lum. August 1, 2024 at 7:34 AM. CHICAGO - Chicago police announced charges Thursday in the murder of off-duty Cook County Sheriff's Deputy Rafael Wordlaw. Cordarrow Thompson, 32 ...
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.
During his five-month-long murder trial that ended in November 2004, prosecutors described Scott as a man who regretted that he was soon to become a father and committed murder to get out of his ...
Joseph Majczek and Theodore Marcinkiewicz were two Polish-American men arrested and convicted of the murder of 57-year-old Chicago police officer William D. Lundy [1] on December 9, 1932. [2] Initially, officials held 10 youths in custody on suspicion of killing the officer. [3] Some 11½ years later in 1944, following the intervention of ...