Alien Deaths Case. Truck driver/smuggler Tyrone Williams was convicted in the deaths of illegal immigrants, reports Juan Lozano of AP. He abandoned them in a locked truck in the sweltering heat in May, 2003. The penalty phase begins Wednesday.

Death Penalty. Virginia's Governor will decide if triple murderer Percy Walton is mentally competent to be executed this Friday as reported in story from the Associated Press. Walton, who pled guilty to the robbery and execution style killings of three people in 1997, received a stay three years ago for a psychiatric evaluation which did not find him incompetent. Last June, the Governor delayed his execution for another evaluation.

More DP. A multiple murderer is asking a Tennessee judge to drop his appeals and allow his execution. As reported by KRIS-TV, Paul Reid received seven death sentences for three separate incidents where he killed more than one victim in 1997. Reid was scheduled for execution last July but says he was talked into resuming his appeals resulting in the current stay.