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Willard Truelove

Name:: Willard Truelove
Record Type:: Documented
Espy File Record:: false
State:: Illinois
Date Execution:: 1950-11-17
Date Crime:: 1949-10-26
Age:: 31
Gender Assigned:: Male
Race:: Black
Crime Convicted of:: Murder
Enslaved:: false
Compensation Case:: false
Execution Method:: Electrocution
Jurisdiction:: State
County:: Cook
County FIPS Code:: 17031
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