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Westley Allan Dodd (July 3, 1961 – January 5, 1993) was a convicted serial killer and child molester from Richland, Washington. His execution on January 5, 1993, was the first legal hanging (at his own request) in the United States since 1965. He is considered by forensic psychiatrist Dr. Michael Stone in his television program Most Evil to be one of the most evil serial killers in history. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ...
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Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a cord wrapped around the neck, causing death. ...
Most Evil is an American forensics television program on the Discovery Channel starring forensic psychiatrist Dr. Michael Stone from Columbia University. ...
Criminal history
During his childhood, Dodd found himself deprived of emotional growth in favor of his younger siblings and ostracized in his school environment. Dodd began sexually abusing children when he was 13 years old; his first victims were his own cousins. All his victims (over 50 in all) were children below the age of 12, some of them as young as two. Dodd's fantasies became more deviant over the years (he wrote about wanting to eat the genitals of his victims). He eventually progressed from simply molesting his victims to murdering them, when he killed brothers Cole and William Neer, and eventually into torturing them before raping and murdering them, as he did to Lee Iseli. After he was arrested for trying to abduct a boy from a movie theater, the police found a homemade torture rack in his home, as yet unused. In modern parlance, to ostracize means to exclude someone from society or from a community, by not communicating with or even noticing them, similar to shunning. ...
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Arrest and trials Dodd was sentenced to death for molesting and then stabbing to death Cole Neer (11) and his brother William (10) near a Vancouver, Washington, park in 1989, as well as for the separate rape and murder of Lee Iseli (4). Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ...
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Less than four years elapsed between the murders and Dodd's execution. He refused to appeal his case or the capital sentence, stating "I must be executed before I have an opportunity to escape or kill someone within the prison. If I do escape, I promise you I will kill prison guards if I have to and rape and enjoy every minute of it." He chose hanging as the method of his execution "because that's the way Lee Iseli died". While in court he said that, if he escaped from jail, he would immediately go back to "killing kids". He also requested that his hanging be televised, but this request was denied. In law, an appeal is a process for making a formal challenge to an official decision. ...
The execution At 12:05 a.m. on January 5, 1993, Dodd was executed by hanging. is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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