Serial Killer Sentencing
The United States does not have a specific guideline to sentencing serial killers. When a serial killer gets caught, they will be charged with murder and if convicted they can get life in prison or receive capital punishment, depending on which state the murders took place. Below are several examples of how a serial killer may be sentenced in different states. For every victim a serial killer kills, the offender will be charged for every murder. For example, if a serial killer kills five victims, the offender could get five life sentences or five death sentences depending on the evidence and the state that they killed in.
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Famous quotes containing the words serial and/or killer:
“And the serial continues:
Pain, expiation, delight, more pain,
A frieze that lengthens continually, in the lucky way
Friezes do, and no plot is produced,
Nothing you could hang an identifying question on.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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an oven, an oven, an oven
and on a pie plate he sticks
in my Yellow Star....”
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