Killer’s Request for Execution Granted
A man who sought to be put to death after being convicted of killing three boys will be executed Jan. 5, a judge has ruled.
Westley Allan Dodd, 31, repeated his wish to skip appeals and be executed during a hearing Monday before Clark County Superior Court Judge Robert Harris. He also chose hanging instead of death by injection.
“I don’t believe the state has any choice but to carry out my execution,” Dodd told the judge.
Dodd was sentenced in 1990 after admitting that he fatally stabbed 10-year-old William Neer and his 11-year-old brother, Cole, in a Vancouver park in September, 1989, and a month later of strangling 4-year-old Lee Iseli.
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