John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy was executed by lethal injection at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois, on May 10, 1994, after about 14 years of appeals. Howard Peters III, the prison's corrections director, announced that he was pronounced dead at 12:58 a.m. According to the Chicago Tribune, the flow of one of the three drugs briefly stopped, and the procedure was paused for about 10 minutes while the intravenous tubing was changed. Accounts of his last words differ: an Associated Press report relayed words attributed to the corrections director, while a prosecutor who was present said no words were spoken.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Howard Peters III, corrections director at Stateville Correctional Center (the agency that held him); Associated Press (reporters); Chicago Tribune (reporters).