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Born 18 December 1946Victims September 1964 - Attempted murder of first victim 23 September 1964 - Attempted murder of 73-year-old woman 29 September 1964 - Murder of 77-year-old woman Summer 1965 - Attempted murder of friend, Danuta 1966 - Attempted poison of bystanders in a bar 13 February 1966 - Murder of 11-year-old boy 14 April 1966 - Attempted murder of 7-year-old girlArrest 1 June 1966Sentence 14 July 1967 - Kot found guilty and sentenced to deathAppeal 22 November 1967 – An appeal to the Supreme Court replaced the death penalty sentence with that of life imprisonment.Appeal Overturned 17 March 1968 - The General Prosecutor invoked the right to revise sentencing and Karol Kot was again sentenced to death by hanging.Death 16 May 1968 - Kot executed by hanging