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Serial killer out of county lock-up, headed to death row

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For the first time in nearly two years, serial killer Anthony Sowell is out of the county jail.

19 Action News has learned the mass murderer was shipped to the Supermax Prison in Youngstown, which is where prisoners sentenced to death are housed. 

Sowell will be in complete isolation for 30 days.

51-year-old Sowell was sentenced to death for the murder of eleven women between June 2007 and September 2009. The victims' remains were found inside and outside of Sowell's Imperial Avenue home in Cleveland. 

As of now, Sowell's execution date is set for October 29th, 2012.

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