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Vadim YERSHOV
Classification:
Serial killer
Characteristics: Siberian
army deserter
- Rape - Robberies
Number of victims: 19
Date of murders: 1997
Date of birth: 1973
Victims profile: Women
Method of murder: Stabbing
with knife
Location: Siberia, Russia
Status: Sentenced to death on June 9, 1998. Commuted to life in
prison
Vadim Yershov
(19)
On June 10, 1998, Red Army army
deserter Vadim Yershov fainted when he was sentenced to death for raping,
robbing and stabbing 19 people. Yershov, 25, was sentenced by a military
tribunal in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
Fortunately for him Russia
has suspended executing its convicts even though the death sentence is
still part of the legal code. The Council of Europe urged Russia to
abolish capital punishment as a condition for its membership in the
organization.
Mayhem.net
Vadim Yershov
A
Siberian army deserter, 24-year-old Vadim Yershov went to trial in
October 1997 on charges of raping, robbing, and fatally stabbing 19
victims in the months after his unscheduled departure from military
service.
As a soldier of sorts, he pled his case before a military
tribunal in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, where he was convicted and
sentenced to death on June 9, 1998.
Yershov reportedly fainted as the sentence was pronounced, but
the dramatic gesture may have been in vain.Russia has suspended execution of death sentences in recent
years, although capital punishment remains part of the nation's legal
code.
The Council of Europe has urged Russia to abolish the death
penalty as a condition of its membership in the group, and ¡t seems
likely that economic interests will spare Vadim Yershov from the firing
squad.At that, considering the state of prisons in Siberia, he may
eventually wish he had been
shot.
Michael Newton - An Encyclopedia
of Modern Serial Killers - Hunting Humans
