61.   Spina is expected to be confirmed, despite concerns raised about his hiring a paralegal who is a convicted murderer serving a prison sentence.

62.   Subjack said Hartley ignored federal court decisions when he ruled that an error by prison authorities can place a convicted murderer beyond the reach of officials.

63.   Such recklessness lands Cole and Rawlins in a lawless Mexican jail, where they find Blevins, now a convicted murderer.

64.   That same month, Johnny Penry, a convicted murderer who is considered mentally retarded, is scheduled for lethal injection.

65.   Texas has easily outnumbered other states in executions of convicted murderers, yet that state has also the highest murder rate.

66.   The Bosnian war turned Drazen Erdomovic from a likable young Croat into a convicted murderer.

67.   The claim, cruel and unfounded, by a convicted murderer that he killed Sarah.

68.   The convicted murderer continues to say he would prefer execution to life in prison.

69.   The elder Bush had accused Dukakis of being soft on crime for allowing Horton, a convicted murderer, to be furloughed from a Massachusetts prison.

70.   The governor, who previously had approved more than two dozen executions, said that sometimes convicted murderers merited mercy.