John Wayne Gacy
lethal injection
['acute liver failure', 'mistletoe', 'diphtheria', 'acute erythroid leukemia', 'colon', 'liver failure', 'melanoma', 'stroke', 'barbiturates', 'pneumonia', 'milk sickness', 'pulmonary tuberculosis', 'renal cancer', '1918 flu pandemic', 'tetanus', 'plague', 'hepatitis c', 'measles', 'pernicious anaemia', 'electrocution', 'renal insufficiency', 'sepsis', 'operation anthropoid', 'mesothelioma', 'pd', 'pulmonary embolism', 'esophagus', 'cerebral vascular accident', 'ballistic trauma', 'bowel cancer', 'bladder cancer', 'progeria', 'pyaemia', 'colorectal cancer', 'leprosy', 'brain', 'nepalese royal massacre', 'stomach cancer', 'road traffic accident', 'armenian genocide', 'syphilis', 'poison', 'epidural hematoma', 'crucified', 'spanish flu', 'regicide', 'congestive heart failure', 'encephalitis', 'lymphatic leukemia', 'drug overdose', 'tubercular meningitis', 'typhus', 'septic poisoning', 'blood poisoning', 'small pox', 'epilepsy', 'lung', 'ovarian cancer', 'lymphoma', 'cholera', 'typhoid fever', 'mnd', 'prostate cancer', 'oesophageal cancer', 'crucifixion', 'flu pandemic', 'heart attacks', 'double pneumonia', 'spanish flu pandemic', 'progressive supranuclear palsy', 'decapitation', 'smallpox', 'multiple myeloma', 'anal cancer', 'kidney cancer', 'lung cancer', 'appendicitis', 'intracranial haemorrhage', 'beheading', 'guillotine', 'lupus', 'nephritis', 'pulmonary emboli', 'dysentery', 'heart failure', 'heart attack', 'aneurysm', 'lepers', 'diffuse axonal injury', 'hepatic cirrhosis', 'brain tumor', 'ebola virus disease', 'kidney', 'diabetic', 'torture', 'pancreatic cancer', 'amyotrophic lateral sclerosis', 'malaria', 'ms']
John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994), also known as the Killer Clown, was an American serial killer and rapist who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois. All of Gacy's known murders were committed inside his Norwood Park Township home. His victims would typically be lured to this address by force or deception, and all but one victim were murdered by either asphyxiation or strangulation with a tourniquet (his first victim was stabbed to death). Gacy buried 26 of his victims in the crawl space of his home. Three further victims were buried elsewhere on his property, while the bodies of his last four known victims were discarded in the Des Plaines River. Convicted of 33 murders, Gacy was sentenced to death for 12 of these killings on March 13, 1980. He spent 14 years on death row before he was executed by lethal injection at Stateville Correctional Center on May 10, 1994. Gacy became known as the "Killer Clown" due to his charitable services at fundraising events, parades and children's parties where he would dress as "Pogo the Clown", a character he devised himself.