Edward Petka

Edward Petka (born March 10, 1943, Chicago, Illinois) was a state's attorney in Will County, Illinois, where he was nicknamed "Electric Ed" for putting more people on death row than anyone else in Illinois history. He later served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993 and then as a Republican member of the Illinois Senate representing the state's 42nd district from 1993 to 2007. As a state senator, he worked with his colleague Barack Obama to reform the state's death-penalty process, mandating the videotaping of police interrogations in murder and homicide cases. In 2006 Ed Petka was elected a 12th Circuit Court Judge.