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One of the most famous death penalties ever handed down was that of Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. the Night Stalker. He was a merciless killer who was, in his own words 'pure evil, in every sense of the word.' He was convicted of thirteen murders, and of thirty counts of attempted murder and more.

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