I was not the only one to suffer because of Williams' behavior -- he secured death sentences against six other men -- all of which were overturned, most because of prosecutorial misconduct.
In order to secure the death penalty, the state would have to prove that the defendants had intentionally killed Moore while robbing him.
Grigson had previously used nearly the same words in helping to secure a death sentence against Randall Dale Adams, who had been convicted of murdering a police officer, in 1977.
Shockingly, Mr. Buck's was not the only case in which Texas relied on this false and offensive link between race and dangerousness to secure a death sentence.
For the most part, the elderly say they feel secure that death would precede a float to market rate for them.
Override, he observed, allowed a prosecutor "who loses before the jury" to get "a second, fresh opportunity to secure a death sentence," in some cases by presenting "the judge with exactly the same evidence and arguments that the jury rejected".
His paintings and sketches in this museum return to such images as Salome dancing to secure the death of John the Baptist, Helen on the ruins of Troy, the loves of the gods and the dark side of myth.
Without the hair from the scene, Jones would have received life imprisonment, since under Texas law it is impossible to secure a death penalty conviction without corroborating physical evidence that the suspect was directly responsible for a crime such as murder.
I have abandoned travel, I have come to dwell with the Friend, I have become secure from death because that long life has come.
Incidentally, this was the same illegal strategy used at trial by prosecutor Joe McGill to secure the death penalty in Mumia's case.
