Multiple Murderer and subject of the book WORSE THAN DEATH: THE DALLAS NIGHTCLUB MURDERS AND THE TEXAS MULTIPLE MURDER LAW. Abdelkrim Belachheb was a Moroccan national who, in 1984, walked into a Dallas nightclub and gunned down seven people. Six died. The death penalty was not an option for the Belachheb jury because, even though he had committed six murders, and his guilt was never in question, his crimes were not capital murders under the Texas statutes of that day. As a direct result of the Belachheb murders, during the 1985 regular session, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 8, which created the “multiple murder” statute. The Act made serial killing and mass murder capital crimes. Belachheb died of natural causes while in custody in the Clements Unit of the Texas Prison System in Amarillo, TX.
Multiple Murderer and subject of the book WORSE THAN DEATH: THE DALLAS NIGHTCLUB MURDERS AND THE TEXAS MULTIPLE MURDER LAW. Abdelkrim Belachheb was a Moroccan national who, in 1984, walked into a Dallas nightclub and gunned down seven people. Six died. The death penalty was not an option for the Belachheb jury because, even though he had committed six murders, and his guilt was never in question, his crimes were not capital murders under the Texas statutes of that day. As a direct result of the Belachheb murders, during the 1985 regular session, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 8, which created the “multiple murder” statute. The Act made serial killing and mass murder capital crimes. Belachheb died of natural causes while in custody in the Clements Unit of the Texas Prison System in Amarillo, TX.
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