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Kang Ho-sun, 38, was found guilty of kidnapping and killing eight women in rural areas south of Seoul and in a remote province between September 2006 and December 2008.
He was also convicted of killing his wife and mother-in-law in an arson in 2005.
Kang was arrested in January for abducting and murdering a female college student and has since confessed to killing and secretly burying seven other women. He was also charged with setting fire to his own house in Ansan, about 50 km south of Seoul, which claimed the lives of his wife and mother-in-law after he had taken out large life insurance policies on them.
Prosecutors had demanded the death penalty for Kang, though South Korea has maintained a de facto moratorium on capital punishment for more than a decade.
