Georgia has executed a serial killer known as the "stocking strangler"

In the state of Georgia, 67-year-old serial killer Carlton Gary, known as the "stocking strangler," was executed RIA News.

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The criminal was injected with a lethal injection. He refused the last supper.

Carlton Gary was sentenced to death in 1986 on charges of murder and rape of three elderly women.

Prosecutors were confident that Gary was involved in at least nine more assaults on women that occurred in 1977 and 1978 in Columbus, Georgia. Most of these alleged victims were strangled with stockings, seven of them died.

In the US, the death penalty is allowed in the state 31, it is also provided for in federal law. The leader in the number of such punishments is Texas. Most often used lethal injection, less often - electric chair, in isolated cases - shooting. Hanging and a gas chamber in the XXI century have not yet been applied, although they are kept in some laws. The culture of execution usually includes the right of the convict to the last supper and the last word immediately before the execution of the sentence.

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