‘Aryan Beauty’ Killing Brings Death Penalty
A Nazi sympathizer was sentenced to death Wednesday for killing a prominent plastic surgeon because he promoted “fake Aryan beauty.”
Jonathan Haynes was charged with murder in the Aug. 6 shooting of Dr. Martin Sullivan in his suburban Wilmette office.
Circuit Judge Earl Strayhorn found him guilty last Friday. Haynes acted as his own attorney but called no witnesses and presented no evidence.
The judge said he searched for mitigating factors that might have resulted in a sentence of life in prison without parole but found none. Haynes, 35, showed no reaction when the sentence was pronounced.
His father and court-appointed public defender have contended that he is insane, but in November Haynes was ruled fit for trial.
The former government chemist espoused neo-Nazi views during his various court appearances.
“You fought World War II against Aryan beauty, and now you try to fake it with cosmetics,” Haynes said during the trial.
Shortly before his sentencing, Haynes reaffirmed his disgust with cosmetic surgery, hair coloring and blue-tinted contact lenses, saying, “I condemn fake Aryan beauty.”
Haynes faces extradition to California in the 1987 slaying of a San Francisco hair colorist.
Death penalty cases are automatically appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court.
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