Convicted Serial Killer Anthony Sowell Is Sentenced to Death
Convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell received a death sentence today in an Ohio courtroom.
Judge Dick Ambrose accepted jurors’ recommendation for the death penalty, according to CNN, the Associated Press and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sowell was convicted last month for killing 11 women and trying to kill three others. The first bodies were discovered in 2009 in and around Sowell’s home.
Sowell told jurors earlier this week that he is “sorry from the bottom of my heart,” according to the Plain Dealer account. “This is not typical of me,” he said. “I don’t know what happened. I can’t explain it.”
Sowell’s lawyers had maintained their client was mentally ill and presented evidence that he had been abused as a child. They maintained that Sowell suffered from post-traumatic stress, obsessive compulsive disorder, cognitive dysfunction and psychosis, the Plain Dealer says.
