Anatoly Onoprienko, Sentenced to death for killing 52 people
A regional court in Ukraine court has sentenced a 39-year-old man to death after convicting him of killing 52 people. Anatoly Onoprienko, who carried out the killings between 1989 and 1996, will be executed by firing squad.
Onoprienko's victims ranged from lonely passerbys to whole families. The sentence was passed despite Ukraine's previous commitments to the Council of Europe to abolish the death penalty. The judge said Onoprienko presented a particular threat to the state and society.
