1.   A botched murder prosecution led to his election, he said.

2.   Despite all these obstacles to first-degree murder prosecutions, Doyle, the defense lawyer, is hardly taking it easy.

3.   Should Nelson not be sentenced to death in federal court, Hill said he would work with Jackson County Prosecutor Bob Beaird for a murder prosecution in state court.

4.   The cost of capital murder prosecutions can vary.

5.   The Franklin-Lipsker case was the first murder prosecution in the nation based on a repressed memory of a crime.

6.   The only other case to cost more than the Menendez trial was the serial murder prosecution of Richard Ramirez, the so-called Night Stalker.

7.   When it comes time for the convicts to stand trial, they likely will face a murder prosecution because it carries the stiffest penalty, Bailey said.

8.   Prosecutors say murder prosecutions are not subject to any statute of limitations.