He Begged to Be Hanged: The Crimes of Westley Allan Dodd
He kept a diary of every child he planned to hurt. He built a torture rack in his apartment. And when he was finally caught, he looked the judge in the eye and demanded to die—by hanging.
In the fall of 1989, Westley Allan Dodd murdered three young boys in just eight weeks. He molested an estimated 175 children over fifteen years. Then he became the first person hanged in the United States in nearly 30 years… because he asked for it.
This is the story of the system that kept releasing him, the four-year-old whose underwear he kept as a trophy, and the six-year-old who fought back hard enough…
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