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By Steve Hall

The Hartford Courant has a lengthy report that begins with Alaine Griffin's "Cases Involving Possible Death Penalty A Long Process."Nancy Filiault waited nearly four years for a Superior Court jury to convict Jonathan Mills of fatally stabbing her sister and her 6-year-old niece and 4-year-old nephew. Every day after the December 2000 slayings in Guilford was one day too long from the trial that would possibly send Mills to the death chamber. The jury eventually spared his life. "When you're waiting, it's so upsetting, so frustrating and frankly sometimes insulting because you can't always get answers to your questions," Filiault said. "It's almost like when you have questions, you feel like the criminal for asking them...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 27, 2009 (boomark / email).