Long Islander Gets Sentenced to Death as Serial Killer

A former postal worker Monday became the first person to be sentenced to death under the “serial killer” provision of New York’s death penalty law.

Robert Shulman, 45, was convicted in March of bludgeoning three women to death.

A judge sentenced him under a provision in the 1995 death penalty law that calls for the execution of someone who kills three or more people within a two-year period as part of a common plan or in a similar fashion.

Only two other people have been sentenced to death in New York since it reinstated the death penalty. Both are appealing their cases.

Shulman, a former postal worker in the Long Island village of Hicksville, was convicted of killing three women whose bodies were found in 1994 and 1995. He is awaiting trial in the killings of two other women.