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The practice of contract killing involves a person (the contract killer) who is paid to kill one or more individuals. [1] As implied by the name, the contract killer typically does such solely for the purpose of profit and often lacks any personal connection to their intended target.
Stephen Wayne Anderson (July 8, 1953 – January 29, 2002) was an American contract killer and serial killer who was executed at California's San Quentin State Prison by lethal injection in 2002 for the murder of Elizabeth Lyman. He was either known to have killed or admitted to the killings of at least eight other people, including a fellow ...
However, "The Zodiac Killer" remains one of America's most infamous and elusive serial killers. Active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he is confirmed to have killed at least five people in ...
Twenty-five people, all male, were executed in the United States in 2024, three by nitrogen hypoxia and twenty-two by lethal injection. [1] The first person executed in 2024, Kenneth Eugene Smith, became the first person in the United States and in the world to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia.
Willoughby was sentenced to death for participating in the murder of three people alongside Leif Halvorsen, whose death sentence was commuted to life in prison with the possibility of parole by ...
Shot four to five people to death in New Orleans in a 45-day span. [49] [50] John Mark Richardson United States 2022 3 3+ Serving three sentences of life imprisonment Shot three black men to death in Greensboro, North Carolina, one of whom he dismembered. [51] Malachi Uwem Nigeria 2022 15 15 Shot and killed by police during an attempted escape
A killer who boasted “I’ll only be 45 when I get out” in front of his victim’s grieving family has died in prison aged 42.. Callum Tole stabbed grandfather Ronnie Fraser, 44, to death in a ...
Killed between six and 12 people under the influence of alcohol. Executed in 2007. [311] Adrián Arroyo Gutiérrez Costa Rica: 2014–2015 6 11 Known as "The Southern Psychopath"; raped and strangled drug-addicted sex workers in San José; sentenced to 110 years imprisonment. [312] Joseph Naso United States: 1977–1994 6 10