On this day, Jan. 5, in 1993, a convicted serial killer and child molester became the first person executed by hanging in nearly 30 years. Westley Allan Dodd, of the state of Washington, began ...

On this day, Jan. 5, in 1993, a convicted serial killer and child molester became the first person executed by hanging in nearly 30 years. Westley Allan Dodd, of Washington state, was sentenced to ...

In the fall of 1989, in Vancouver, Washington, a short, 29 year-old man named Westley Allan Dodd raped and murdered three young boys. The boys were brothers Cole and William Neer, ages 10 and 11, and ...

A serial killer and sex offender on death row used his last words to claim his execution was the only way to stop his reign of felony. Westley Allan Dodd was snagged after the failed attempt to abduct ...