Chessboard Serial Killer Gets Life

[Rhino]

Russian Chessboard Serial Killer Sentenced to Life in Prison For 48 Murders
Monday, October 29, 2007

MOSCOW — A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killer cases.

The sentence for Alexander Pichushkin, who claimed to have killed 60 in an effort to mark all 64 squares on a chessboard, was the severest possible under Russian law...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305836,00.html

I'm surprised they don't have the death penalty there.

[DoctorDoom]

Once he's in the slammer, who knows what will happen? He might just disappear.

[Beowulf]

I'm surprised they don't have the death penalty there.

They do. It's called a Gulag.

[S-T]

I'm surprised they don't have the death penalty there.

Probably an overreaction from the slaughter perpetrated by the http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/images/icons/hmsc.gif. The DP can be administered in a just way, but given their history it might be best for the Russkies to avoid it for a while.

[DeclinetoState]

. . . Alexander Pichushkin, who claimed to have killed 60 in an effort to mark all 64 squares on a chessboard . . .I know that Russians take their chess seriously, but this guy has got some issues!