Henryk Moruś was born on March 25, 1943, in Sulejów, a town in central Poland. He married at the age of 20 and had three sons. Little else of his early life is on record.
The first death came on March 22, 1986. The victim was Teresa G. Six years passed before the next death.
Six more people died in the first half of 1992, in separate events across the Piotrków Trybunalski district. Two deaths came in January, in Piotrków Trybunalski and in Koluszki; the Koluszki victim was Andrzej K. A married couple died in Sulejów. Józef J. of Ciechomin died on June 23, 1992, and Jarosław K. of Adamów on June 26, 1992. The exact date of the deaths in Sulejów is not on record.
In 1992 Moruś was charged with the murder of seven people. The first trial took place in 1993 before the provincial court in Piotrków Trybunalski, where the prosecutor was Małgorzata Ronc. The court sentenced him to death.
The court of second instance quashed that verdict because of procedural errors. A retrial in 1995 ended with the same result: he was sentenced to death again, at a time when a moratorium on executions was already in force. The date of the quashing is not on record.
The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. The date of the commutation is not on record. His was one of the last death sentences passed by a court in Poland. In May 2008 he wrote to President Lech Kaczyński asking for a pardon, expressing remorse and saying that his punishment had changed his life. The presiding judge of the criminal division of the Piotrków court who had tried him did not support the request, saying he saw no special circumstances arising after the verdict. The outcome of the request is not on record.
Moruś died in 2013 in Poland, at the age of 70.
March 25, 1943: born in Sulejów.
March 22, 1986: first death.
January to June 1992: six further deaths in the Piotrków Trybunalski district.
1992: charged with the murder of seven people.
1993: sentenced to death by the provincial court in Piotrków Trybunalski; verdict later quashed on appeal.
1995: sentenced to death again on retrial.
Later: sentence commuted to life imprisonment (date not on record).
May 2008: asks the president for a pardon.
2013: dies.