Manuel Salazar, is the noted Death Row artist whose acclaimed paintings brought him international attention and a dramatic reprieve from execution in 1996. Manuel Salazar was born in Joliet, Illinois on 20 February 1966 to Mexican parents. On September 12, 1984, the 18-year-old Manuel "Junior" Salazar was just one member of a carload of four young Latinos and a Black teenager traveling on the east side of Joliet when their car was stopped by local police. The group had an... more
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