World IN BRIEF : RUSSIA : Killer Executed in Deaths of 52
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Russia has executed serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, convicted of 52 murders in three former Soviet republics during a 12-year rampage, the Interfax news agency said in Moscow. Chikatilo, known as the “Rostov Ripper,” was shot in the southern region of Rostov-on-Don after President Boris N. Yeltsin rejected an appeal for clemency, the agency said. The former teacher was found guilty of raping and murdering 21 boys, 14 girls and 17 older women in Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan starting in 1978. He was arrested in 1990.
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