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BTK killed again in 1985, 1986 and 1991, although some of the crimes weren't linked to him initially. ... Kansas didn't have the death penalty at the time of the killings, so the 10 life terms was ...
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), also known as BTK (an abbreviation he gave himself for "bind, torture, kill"), is an American serial killer who murdered at least 10 people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women.
Dennis Rader’s daughter Kerri Rawson says: ‘This is just the beginning’
Authorities in Oklahoma dug up ‘trophies’ from BTK killer Dennis Rader’s former home. They believe the discoveries will finally prove the prolific serial killer had even more victims, Bevan ...
Molested and killed an unsupervised seven-year-old girl in a Nevada casino's restroom when he was eighteen. Took a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. [147] Mark Hobson: 2005 4 life sentences without parole United Kingdom: Spree killer who murdered his girlfriend, her twin sister and an elderly couple during an eight-day manhunt. Documents ...
The death penalty increased in popularity throughout the 1970s and 1980s, when crime went up and politicians campaigned on fighting crime and drugs; in 1994, the opposition rate was less than 20%, less than in any other year. Since then, the crime rate has fallen and opposition to the death penalty has strengthened again.
The 78-year-old is serving 10 consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to 10 murders committed from the 1970s to the 1990s in Wichita, Kansas.
A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [18] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [19]