Serial murderer given death penalty for killing 10 women

ANSAN, South Korea, April 22 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean serial killer convicted
of murdering 10 women, including his wife and mother-in-law, was sentenced to
death Wednesday by a court here.

Kang Ho-sun, 38, was found guilty of kidnapping and killing eight women in rural
areas south of Seoul and in a remote province between September 2006 and December
2008.
He was also convicted of killing his wife and mother-in-law in an arson in 2005.
Kang was arrested in January for abducting and murdering a female college student
and has since confessed to killing and secretly burying seven other women. He was
also charged with setting fire to his own house in Ansan, about 50 km south of
Seoul, which claimed the lives of his wife and mother-in-law after he had taken
out large life insurance policies on them.
Prosecutors had demanded the death penalty for Kang, though South Korea has
maintained a de facto moratorium on capital punishment for more than a decade.
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