Dion Banks, Cook County, for the fatal shooting of a woman in front of her two young sons during a carjacking in the Ford City mall parking lot. Joseph Bannister, Cook County, for wounding his ex-girlfriend and killing her sister during a attack in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. Daniel Ramsey, Hancock County, for the July shooting deaths of two girls, ages 16 and 12, and wounding his former girlfriend and three toddlers in Hancock County.
Cecil Sutherland, Jefferson County, for the abduction, rape and murder of a year-old girl in Jefferson County. Pat Quinn abolished the death penalty Wednesday and also commuted the death sentences of 15 men on death row in Illinois. The 15 and the crimes for which they were sentenced to death are:. The 15 men spared from the death penalty.
Daily Herald report. Baez, who said, "Good morning," to the judge as he entered the courtroom, sat on one side of the room, surrounded by his attorneys and armed guards. The family members, who were escorted out of the courthouse by sheriff's officials, declined to comment on the ruling.
In coming to her decision, Lampkin said she reviewed all the evidence and testimony surrounding the case, including Baez's page case history from when he lived in Michigan. Baez's abusive father introduced him to drugs and alcohol when he was 4 years old, and he was an addict by age 13, Lampkin said.
In addition to being physically abused, Baez was often told by his father that his soul had been sold to the devil, the judge said. The abuse continued when his mother got a boyfriend, who would shoot up heroin and smoke marijuana in front of him, Lampkin said.
At age 13, the judge said Baez was quoted saying the only time positive things can happen is when he was high. Baez committed his first crime in The spree of auto theft, assaults, burglary and other felonies didn't stop even after Baez was placed in drug-treatment centers, a boys' training camp and a foster home, Lampkin said. Baez's life around," Lampkin said. Bannister's family appeared shaken after the verdict, with at least one family member crying.
They declined to comment after speaking with Bannister's attorneys. The jury of five men and seven women was the first jury in the Cook County Criminal Courts Building to make such a decision since Gov. George Ryan cleared Death Row in Bannister is the eighth person statewide to be sentenced to death since Ryan issued blanket clemency. In the last two years, the moratorium on executions was kept intact to see the progress of reforms.
One of the jurors, Quincy Johnson, said jurors discussed the moratorium in the jury room as they deliberated over Bannister's sentence. At first, most members of the jury believed that he should received life in prison, Johnson said. After several votes, the evidence and the brutality of the act swayed the jury enough to recommend a death sentence, Johnson said. Everyone was covering all the bases. A second juror, who asked not to be identified, also said that details that came up during the hearings swayed the jury.
The shot that went off and killed the sister, that was what we as a jury had to look at.
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