41.   In the dragging-death case, which resulted in three murder convictions, he noted that the death penalty was handed down in two of them.

42.   In Sacramento, spokeswoman Hilary McLean said the governor takes murder convictions very seriously, especially those resulting in the death of a law enforcement official.

43.   In voting for a murder conviction following the two-and-a-half week trial, the jury rejected less serious manslaughter charges.

44.   It was the conviction that crime that when added to the murder conviction, created the aggravated circumstances that qualified McGinn for the death penalty.

45.   Last Last month, after his murder conviction, she was hospitalized after overdosing on pills.

46.   LEGISLATION VETOED Would have instituted the death penalty as a sentence for some murder convictions.

47.   Legal experts said it is unusual for the Kansas Appeals Court to overturn a murder conviction without ordering a new trial.

48.   Members of the Pennsylvania congressional delegation express their shock at a controversial ruling by a federal judge that overturned a murder conviction.

49.   Once a jury returns a first-degree murder conviction, mitigating circumstances are virtually the only tools available to spare a defendant.

50.   One of his lawyers, Richard M. Greenberg, said that Baz would not testify because he was still appealing his murder conviction.