Posted on 08/18/2005 2:15:48 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
'Bind, Torture and Kill' serial killer Dennis Rader was ordered to serve 10 consecutive life terms Thursday during a tear filled hearing in which his victims called him a monster and said he should be 'thrown into a deep hole and left to rot.'
The sentence of a minimum of 175 years without chance of parole was the longest possible that Judge Gregory Waller could deliver.
The state of Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed.
Earlier Rader stood in front of a courtroom filled with his victim's family members, tell the court he believes he is a Christian and he knew he would be caught for his crimes.
Instead of asking forgiveness or a lenient sentence, Rader rambled off details about his series of murders. In a bizarre moment of triumph, he ran through a list of people he wanted to think.
He also told the judge he was honest and cooperated with police after his arrest, then said 'he blew so much smoke' in telling his story that 'nobody knows fact from fiction.'
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The horror of it....death by old age!
I suspect his death will come at the hands of his fellow inmates.
I hear the first 120 years are the hardest.
What will happen to him in prison? Will he get solitary or will he be with general prison population?
Main difference between caught and not-caught, in cases like this, is where you live and who pays your bills.
Dan
"...death by old age!..."
You really don't think he'll make it to old age, do you?
They use to hang'em in Kansas. Nola whimped out. Could have had a first year law student give this trial the proper ending of a Kansas needle. (Kansas will get it's DP back from those nimrodds in Topeka-Thkxs to Phil Kline)
Was his ex-wife in the courtroom?
I never understood why they sentence for years greater than life. Why bother or does it send some sort of signal? Why 175 years? Why not 500 years? See the difference? There is none.. If he's lucky, he'll be dead in 20-30 years anyway thats if an inmate doesn't do him in on the first day.
Shouldn't the penalty at the time of CAPTURE be the one used?
This is a travesty!
Hoping he never draws an easy breath for the rest of his life.
No way he makes it 5 years in the general prision population. Ask Jeffrey Dahmer about that one...
I think we need the death penalty.
Just out of curiosity, when did Kansas do away with capital punishment? I know they hung the two In Cold Blood murderers back in, I believe, 1965.
No. None of his family or friends were there.
I'm hoping he doesn't have any inmates... a cell like one of the old school Alcatraz ones would be nice. Dark most of the day, damp, dank, no visitors, no cell mates. Perfect.
bastard was proud of himself today.
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