Serial killer Robert Pickton dies following prison attack

Following an attack on May 19 by another inmate in Québec’s maximum security Port-Cartier Institution, Pickton has died from his injuries.

Convicted B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton has died in hospital.

Following an attack on May 19 by another inmate in Québec’s maximum security Port-Cartier Institution, Pickton has died from his injuries. He was 74 years old.

Pickton was convicted in 2007 of the murders of six women. He was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years, the maximum sentence for second-degree murder in Canada.