
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 11, 1994                   TAG: 9405110107
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-12   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: JOLIET, ILL.                                LENGTH: Short

APPEALS DENIED; GACY EXECUTED

John Wayne Gacy, convicted 14 years ago of the sex-related killings of 33 young men and boys, was killed by lethal injection early Tuesday.

The execution followed last-minute appeals by Gacy's lawyers, asserting their 52-year-old client was mentally incompetent and Illinois' execution method was unconstitutional. No state or federal judge, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, would stay the execution.

- The New York Times

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