MOSCOW – The bloodiest serial killer in Ukraine’s history, who slaughtered entire families including women and children, died in jail earlier this week age 54, an official said.
Anatoly Onoprienko, was found guilty of killing 52 people and sentenced to death in 1999. But that sentence was replaced with a life term in jail after Ukraine introduced a moratorium on capital punishment.
After 17 years of incarceration, Onoprienko died of a heart attack in prison in the northwestern city of Zhitomir on Tuesday, Igor Andrushko of Ukraine’s Penitentiary Service told RIA Novosti.
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