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“Deadpool Killer” Wade Wilson, who killed two women “for the sake of killing,” sentenced to death

Tattooed “Deadpool Killer” Wade Wilson was sentenced to death on Tuesday for the brutal murders of two women in Florida in 2019, which he committed “for the sake of killing.”

The 30-year-old tattooed madman remained stoic as the judge announced the death sentence.

“The evidence shows that the murders were heinous, cruel and savage and that the second murder was cold-blooded, calculated and premeditated,” District Judge Nicholas Thompson said in the courtroom.

Wade Wilson was sentenced to death on Tuesday. Andrew West/The News Press/USA Today Network / USA TODAY NETWORK

Wilson was found guilty in June of the murders of Kristine Melton, 35, and Diane Ruiz, 43, during a crazy October night in 2019.

The jury had recommended that Wilson be sentenced to death.

The massacres were so egregious that Thompson saw “no basis” for overturning the death sentence recommended by the jury.

Wilson first strangled Melton in her home after the two had sexual contact while under the influence of drugs, prosecutors said.

Wilson – who shares the same name as the Marvel antihero made famous by Ryan Reynolds – then stole his victim's car and used her phone to call his girlfriend, 41-year-old Melissa Montanez. He attacked her, but she refused to get into his car.

Victim Kristine Melton Cape Coral PD

Then Wilson met Ruiz asking for directions in Cape Coral and invited her to get in the car.

He later admitted to strangling her and throwing her out of the car – only to get back in and run her over “until she looked like spaghetti,” according to testimony at the trial.

“This case was about killing for the sake of killing,” Deputy District Attorney Andreas Gardiner said in court. “Strangulation is the epitome of a person's life slipping through their hands.”

Despite his disturbing crime, during his five years in prison, thousands of lascivious perverts sent him love letters and photos with a youth-harmful rating.

Several people also wrote letters to the judge begging him to overlook Wilson's tattooed face and swastika engravings, claiming that the killer was a different person when medicated.

Victim Diane Ruiz Cape Coral PD

The mentally ill man's lawyers tried to justify this by arguing that Wilson had suffered brain damage due to his drug addiction and was suffering from abandonment issues because his biological parents had given him up for adoption.

His adoptive parents begged the court not to sentence him to death, writing in a letter: “The human being is still in him.”

“Please take heed and do not take our son away from us,” they wrote.

Wilson was also found guilty of grand larceny, burglary, assault and petty theft.