<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/serial-killer" rel="" target="" title="Serial killer Nikko Jenkins"><span>Serial killer Nikko Jenkins</span></a><span> sued the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/american-airlines-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-nebraska/b3cb4f67-e9af-4bcd-b7a1-910356a2ed88" rel="" target="" title="US state of Nebraska"><span>US state of Nebraska</span></a><span> for wrongful release on </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/today-in-history" rel="" target="" title="February 19, 2014"><span>February 19, 2014</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Jenkins' argument in the multi-million dollar lawsuit was that he should have never been released from prison before he committed four murders.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>His handwritten lawsuit stated that prison officials should have known he was dangerous and shouldn't have been released.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-february-18-what-happened-on-this-day-electric-shock-grapes/795ea0a2-7100-442d-bb03-d5f807a9ef83"><strong><span>Bunch of grapes knocks TV reporter unconscious</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Instead he should have been involuntarily committed to a mental institution, Jenkins said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/man-who-killed-6-members-of-a-nebraska-family-in-1975-dies-after-complaining-of-chest-pain/07277238-0418-4742-8a88-b7a4e5edfe41" rel="" target="" title="Nebraska's Supreme Court"><span>Nebraska's Supreme Court</span></a><span> dismissed the lawsuit in 2016.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As a 16-year-old, Jenkins had been sentenced to 18 years behind bars over two armed carjackings after a series of other juvenile offences.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-february-19-what-happened-on-this-day-nikko-jenkins/e918bf40-c62f-445a-be8f-0611a0fd2512" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>During that time in prison, Jenkins told a psychiatrist he was hearing "voices from Egyptian gods".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The psychiatrist concluded Jenkins was feigning psychosis.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-january-29-what-happened-on-this-day/69d68b09-4491-4679-9c8e-cf7111c2e1d2"><strong><span>Teen girl's chilling reason for gunning down eight schoolchildren</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>After 10 years behind bars, Jenkins was released from prison in July 2013.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Less than two weeks later, Jenkins shot two strangers with a shotgun.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In the following days, he murdered his third and fourth victims.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>When arrested, he told police he had killed his victims as sacrifices to the Egyptian god Apophis.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Nevertheless, he was deemed fit to stand trial and allowed to represent himself.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>During the trial, he "spoke in tongues", howled and laughed at inappropriate times.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/today-in-history-january-25-what-happened-on-this-day-avianca-flight-052/251ced8e-f7d2-4aea-8a67-be5948ff0ef1"><strong><span>Shock discovery when surgeons cut open plane crash survivor</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In 2017, a three-judge panel sentenced him to </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/death-row" rel="" target="" title="four consecutive death sentences"><span>four consecutive death sentences</span></a><span> as well as 450 years in prison.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He later appealed his conviction, arguing that he had ineffective counsel.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>That appeal was ruled against earlier this year.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>An execution date is yet to be set.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a 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