Eric Williams, a former lawyer and judge who was accused of murdering Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife and an assistant prosecutor, was sentenced to death Dec. 17 by a jury.

Williams was convicted for the capital murder of Cynthia McLelland, who was repeatedly shot along with her husband inside their Forney home on March 30, 2013. Two months earlier, Mark Hasse, a Kaufman County assistant district attorney, was fatally shot while walking from the employee parking lot to work.

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