On this day: May 10

  1. 1994
    Prison Stateville Correctional Center · John Wayne Gacy

    Gacy was transferred to Stateville near Joliet and executed there by lethal injection on May 10, 1994.

  2. 2007
    Court / trial Cook County Circuit Court, Chicago · Brown's Chicken massacre

    Luna and Degorski were tried separately in Cook County Circuit Court. Luna was convicted on May 10, 2007, and Degorski on September 29, 2009; both were sentenced to life without parole after juries fell short of the unanimity needed for death.