Westley Allan Dodd was executed by hanging at at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. He was the first person executed by hanging in the US since 1965. According to Washington State law, Dodd had to choose between hanging and lethal injection. He chose hanging because, he said, "that's the way [victim] Lee Iseli died."
Dodd got just what he deserved. He had been molesting children since he was a teenager, first preying on his own cousins. As he got older, he moved up to torture and murder, eventually becoming known as "The Vancouver Child Killer." His victims included brothers Cole (age 11) and William Neer (age 10) and four-year-old Lee Iseli. He was finally caught trying to abduct another boy from a movie theater. Searching his home, police found a homemade (and fortunately unused) torture rack.
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