Serial Killer Says He Wants to Be Executed
From Times Wire Reports
Serial killer Michael Ross, defending his right to give up his death-row appeals, testified in New London that he wanted to be executed next month.
Ross has said he wants to spare his victims’ families additional agony. But his father and a court-appointed lawyer questioned that explanation, saying mental illness was driving him to commit state-assisted suicide.
Ross, 45, is scheduled to die May 11 for killing four young women in Connecticut in 1983 and 1984.
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