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Richard Speck murders 8 student nurses in Chicago.
He broke into their dorm, held them for
hours, then one by one took them out of the room, and stabbed or strangled them
to death. He raped the last student before
killing her. He was unaware of a 9th
student, hiding under the bed, who stayed hidden until the next morning, then
climbed out onto a ledge screaming “My friends are dead!”
After only 49 minutes
of deliberation, the jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to the electric
chair. However, in 1972 the death
penalty was lifted because of the Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia
(see my June 29 history posting), and sentence was converted to life.
Speck died of a heart attack one day prior to
his 50th birthday.
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