Question: If McDuff Had Been Executed In 1968 - How Many Innocent Lives Would Have Been Saved in 1991 and 1992?

 

The Broomstick Killer

Source: AP Photo/Brett Coomer

Number of Victims: 9 confirmed     Years Active: 1966 and 1991 to 1992

Kenneth McDuff was sentenced to death row not once, but twice. This Texas serial killer is known for the rape and brutal murder of Edna Sullivan. He broke her neck using a broomstick. He was sentenced to death in 1968. However, the death penalty was overturned in 1972, causing his sentence to be commuted to life.

Then, overcrowding in the prison allowed for his release. This led to the deaths of at least six more young women and a capital murder conviction that got him his second death sentence. He died in 1998 by lethal injection.