11.   In Texas courts, jurors do not have the option of sentencing a defendant to life without parole.

12.   In three cases, prosecutors agreed to guilty pleas and the defendants were sentenced to life without parole.

13.   It only takes two votes to convict and sentence a defendant to death.

14.   Japanese criminal cases are not made public until all defendants have been sentenced.

15.   Jurors cannot sentence a defendant to death unless they determine that the defendant would pose a danger to society in the future.

16.   One involved deciding when a judge should be allowed to call a new jury to sentence a defendant convicted of first-degree murder.

17.   One other defendant was sentenced to probation, while four others have not been sentenced.

18.   Records in Japanese criminal cases are not made public until all defendants have been sentenced.

19.   Sixty-seven defendants were sentenced to death and at least one was executed before the prosecutorial misconduct was discovered.

20.   So far, two of these cases have gone through both the trial and penalty phases, and the defendants have been sentenced.