After 3 trials, Ronnie Keith Williams was sentenced...

After 3 trials, Ronnie Keith Williams was sentenced to die for that 1993 murder of a pregnant teen Lisashantill "Lisa" Dyke, 18. Broward Circuit Judge Sheldon Schapiro announced the sentence. DNA testing placed Williams' blood and his bloody fingerprint at the crime scene, and bite marks on Dyke's body appear to match Williams' teeth, according to a forensic dentist. Williams told police when he was arrested that the cuts on his hand were from washing dishes. A jury convicted him in 1996 of Dyke's murder and voted 11-1 to recommend death. But that conviction was overturned because a juror had an emotional collapse during deliberations and was replaced by another juror. An appeals court ruled in 2001 that the judge should have declared a mistrial. Williams' 2nd trial, on December 3, 2003 (see), ended in a mistrial after a prosecutor accidentally read a statement to a witness that could have led jurors to realize Williams had been tried before. On February 12 a new Broward jury deliberated only a few hours before finding Williams guilty. The same jury on March 1 recommended in a 10-2 vote that Williams receive the death penalty.