Dante Arthurs

Who is Dante Arthurs?

Dante Wyndham Arthurs is an Australian murderer, convicted of the murder of Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia Shu.

On 17 November 2007 Arthurs pleaded guilty to the charges of murder and unlawful detention and was convicted in the Supreme Court of Western Australia; he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non parole period of 13 years. He is currently in detention at the maximum security Casuarina Prison and will become eligible for release in 2019.

Many areas of the Western Australian and Australian community debated the re-introduction of the death penalty due to the emotion evoked by Rodriguez-Urrutia Shu's murder. The last person hanged in Western Australia was Eric Edgar Cooke in 1964 and the death penalty was repealed in that state in 1984.