Emperor of Death Row - Patrick McKenna

Описание: A man considered Nevada's most-dangerous criminal is preparing another appeal to his death sentence. Patrick McKenna has been on death row for more than 20 years, and he has agreed to speak only with the Channel 8 I-Team.

The name may not be familiar to newer residents, but McKenna has long been considered Nevada's Public Enemy No. 1, a convicted killer, rapist and escape artist who's even been compared to Hannibal Lecter.

"I'm a guy who has spent 38 years of his life in prison, maximum security prisons," McKenna said. "In my early years, I was involved in prison gangs, sometimes as a matter of survival, sometimes as a matter of pure criminality."

McKenna doesn't pretend to be a misunderstood Goody Two-Shoes. He admits to being a career criminal, a teenage hoodlum who became a gangster, who led an inmate takeover of the city jail, and who escaped from Nevada's maximum security prison -- not once, but twice. Look at his record, and you might think he's easy to categorize as someone who deserves the death sentence. But there's a lot going on behind those brooding eyes.

Whether he deserves the reputation as Nevada's most dangerous prisoner, McKenna's troubled life raises disturbing questions about crime and punishment in our state.