Reports

During Braziel's trial, the prosecutor showed the wife a photo from her husband's autopsy. She began protesting and crying loudly ... the prosecutor denied that he deliberately intended to provoke an emotional response from her.

"I am on death row because of the actions and intent of others and because I am one of the Texas Seven, case closed."

Ramos told officers that he returned home in February after a day of job seeking and found his wife and children dead. He dug a hole in the bathroom floor and buried them.

Acker came over, picked up the victim, and carried her over his shoulder to his pickup truck. He then forced her into the truck, a scene an eyewitness described as "like putting a cat in a bathtub."

Tyler police found a blue barrel in a ditch ... four months after the killing. The barrel contained the decomposed remains of the victim's body, along with duct tape, lime, and concrete.