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Speck awaits ruling on Chicago nurse murders execution
Speck returns to Peoria County Jail to learn if a judge will uphold a jury choice to die in the electric chair for eight nurse killings in Chicago. He travels in a Cook County Jail bus with armed deputies, then heads to sentencing with potential consecutive prison terms if the death penalty is not imposed.
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Peoria
Richard Franklin Speck
Chicago
Cook County
Joseph Woods
Cook County Sheriff’s
Speck
Peoria County
Herbert C. Paschen
Illinois
Paschen