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The Tyrone Williams Case Ends With Resentencing

By Steve Hall

It started as a high visibility 2006 federal death penalty prosecution, following a horrific 2003 episode in which 19 illegal aliens died after being smuggled into Texas in the back of a tractor trailer.   "Texas: New Sentence in Smuggling," is the AP brief from Tuesday's New York Times. A truck driver was resentenced to nearly 34 years in prison on Monday after a federal appeals court last year overturned the life sentences he received in America?s deadliest human smuggling attempt, in which 19 illegal immigrants died. The new sentence for the driver, Tyrone Williams, is equal to the longest prison term he had received in the case, for another count that was upheld on appeal. Prosecutors said that Mr. Williams heard the immigrants screaming as they were succumbing to heat inside his tractor trailer, but that he refused to free them...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 26, 2011 (boomark / email).