21.   Texas is one of only a handful of states that have jury sentencing, where a panel of peers sentences the defendant, rather than a judge.

22.   That is because the power to decide which defendants can be sentenced to Willard rests with prosecutors, not judges.

23.   The defendant was eventually sentenced to death.

24.   The defendant could be sentenced to life in prison if he is convicted of the four counts of murder.

25.   The judge can sentence the defendants as he sees fit.

26.   The superior court judges believed it was better for them to sentence defendants, rather than for lawyers to bargain over the punishment.

27.   Two others, including a Queens case that Brown handled, went to trial, but the defendants were ultimately sentenced to life in prison.

28.   A female defendant was sentenced to two years for storing the explosives used in the violence.

29.   But if found guilty, the defendants could be sentenced to life imprisonment.

30.   Eight defendants were sentenced to die, but four of those sentences were reduced on appeal, the Legal Daily said.