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Williams' license to practice law, which had been suspended on October 10, 2012, was permanently revoked when he was disbarred on February 3, 2014. [19] Eric Williams was found guilty of capital murder [20] at his trial in Rockwall County on December 4, 2014. [21] He was sentenced on December 17, 2014, to die by lethal injection. [22]
In May 2023, U.S. Representatives Matt Cartwright and Glenn Thompson, both of Pennsylvania, introduced Eric’s Law, a bill that would permit prosecutors to impanel a second jury for sentencing if the first jury in a federal death penalty case fails to reach a unanimous decision on a sentence, as it did in Con-ui's trial for Williams' murder. [19]
A judge then sentenced him to death. Kim Williams pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. [4] Author Casey attended Eric Williams's trial as part of her research for the book. After the convictions, Casey visited Williams on death row for an in-prison interview. She interviewed Kim Williams in prison as well.
In 2013, Wirskye was the lead prosecutor on the capital murder case against the Kaufman County DA murderer, Eric Williams. In 2020, Wirskye was the lead prosecutor on the capital murder case against Brandon McCall, who killed Richardson Police Officer David Sherrard. [8]
Williams' attorneys presented evidence that he was "a caring and loving father" during the penalty phase of his murder trial. Several of Williams’s family members and friends, including his son ...
During an evidentiary hearing on Aug. 28, Keith Larner, who was the prosecutor on Williams’ murder case in St. Louis County, said he struck a potential juror because he was a young Black man ...
Here's what you need to know about the case: ... Erik Maund first met Holly Williams in Nashville using fake names. ... Carey and Maund were all convicted of murder-for-hire with death in November ...
Code also killed two children that were present in the home, 12-year-old Joe Robinson Jr. and 8-year-old Eric Williams. Both boys were bound, gagged, and strangled to death with a cord. [5] [15] Police noted that the brutality of the attack had made them speculate if it was committed by someone close to William. [5]