please release me...

Meet the singing serial killer:

Holding court in his jail cell recently, dressed in flowing white robes and a matching Muslim skullcap, Henyansyah trilled a sweet-voiced rendition of one of his songs for an appreciative crowd of court officers, local residents and reporters.

"Release me, forget me, release me from these shackles," Henyansyah sang.

I bet Tom Jones’ lawyers will be on to him.

"Enough for now. You can get my album soon," he said, as the applause and cheers for an encore turned to visible disappointment. Henyansyah was arrested in July last year after bags containing the dismembered body parts of one of his alleged victims, Herry Santoso, were found on a Jakarta roadside.

Henyansyah isn’t the first singing serial killer:

Appeals delayed the execution of his sentence, but the verdict was affirmed, and Neu mounted the scaffold on February 1, 1935. Before the trap was sprung, he treated witnesses to a spirited rendition of an original song composed especially for the occasion. Its title: "I'm Fit as a Fiddle and Ready to Hang."