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Usually when serial killers are caught, they are locked up for good and the public can take comfort they will never kill again. Not Michael Wayne McGray.

On Monday, he was sentenced to his seventh life term for first-degree murder, a strangulation as cold-blooded as the previous six killings with one difference: This time he committed murder while imprisoned for his other crimes.

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Appearing by video from the prison in Quebec where he is now being held, McGray refused legal representation and told the British Columbia Supreme Court he wanted to plead guilty to the Nov. 21, 2010, killing of Jeremy Phillips.

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“I just want to wrap this up,” he said, according to a report in the Chilliwack Progress.

Phillips, 33, was nearing the end of a six-year, nine-month sentence for aggravated assault when he was found lifeless in the cell he shared with McGray at the medium-security Mountain Institution in Agassiz, B.C. He had been strangled with a ligature made from a cut bed sheet and beaten in the nose and cheek.