NATION : Serial Killer Gets 250 Years
Arthur Shawcross, convicted of killing 10 Rochester-area women since 1988, was sentenced today to a minimum of 250 years in prison.
Monroe County Judge Donald Wisner sentenced Shawcross, 45, to the maximum of 25 years to life on each of 10 convictions of second-degree murder. “For far too long, you have held center stage in this community. . . . It is time to put all of this behind us,” Wisner told Shawcross.
Shawcross was convicted Dec. 13 after jurors rejected a defense claim that he was legally insane at the time of the killings, which took place between March, 1988, and January, 1990. At the time of the killings, Shawcross was on parole after serving 15 years in prison for the 1972 stranglings of two children in Watertown.
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