Convict Kills, Cooks Second Cellmate

A death-row inmate in Siberia has received a second death sentence for killing and cooking a cellmate, the Interfax news agency said Thursday.

Andrei Maslich, 24, was on death row in the city of Barnaul last May when he got into an argument with his cellmate, strangled him, cut out his liver and tried to cook it over a makeshift fire.

Maslich, now a four-time convicted murderer, was initially given the death penalty last year after he and another inmate strangled, cooked and ate a fellow prisoner.

They told authorities they were bored and wanted to visit Moscow, where they thought they would be sent for psychiatric examinations, Interfax said.

Maslich told the Altai regional court he cooked his cellmate in hopes of being declared insane and escaping execution for his first act of cannibalism.