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Michael Bruce Ross murdered eight young women, in most cases after raping them, in a three-year spree in the early 1980s.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)

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Michael Bruce Ross murdered eight young women, in most cases after raping them, in a three-year spree in the early 1980s. On May 13, twenty years after his arrest, Ross was executed in Somers, Conn., by lethal injection. It was the first execution in that state since 1960, when electrocution was the statutory method. Those who approve, will approve; those who don't, won't. Since there was no serious dispute about the evidence offered at trial, or about Ross's sanity, or about the veracity of his ...

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