This Moroccan Serial Killer Was Walled to Death

A brutal form of capital punishment is used sparingly

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In Morrocco, 1906 presented a particular gruesome news story: a Moroccan man had killed over 36 women.

His name was Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi. Mesfewi’s case was so notorious it drew international attention. Multiple newspapers in the United States caught wind of the…