BTK killer sentenced to life in prison David Shucosky at 3:57 PM ET
[JURIST] Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, was sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms on Thursday after pleading guilty [JURIST report] in June to 10 murders. Since Kansas did not have the death penalty at the time of the crimes, the life terms handed down were the toughest sentence possible. AP has more.
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