DEATH PENALTY TRIAL SOUGHT BY FORMER JUSTICE OF THE PEACE CONVICTED OF REVENGE KILLINGS
GREENVILLE, Texas – A former justice of the peace in North Texas is seeking a new death penalty trial nearly 10 years after being sentenced to death for the revenge killings of a district attorney’s wife and two others. Eric Williams, who was convicted of capital murder in 2014 for the deaths of Cynthia McLelland, her husband, and Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, is asking for a new trial on the grounds that his …