De'Kelvin Martin, who murdered a 12-year-old and the boy's great-grand-parents...

De'Kelvin Martin, who murdered a 12-year-old and the boy's great-grand-parents, was given the death penalty. Fulton Superior Court Judge Gail Tusan, instead of a jury, decide his fate. But Tusan, whom prosecutors had earlier accused of planning to hand down a life sentence, decided in a little less than an hour that Martin should die by lethal injection.
The judge said "the killing of 2 elderly persons and a child cannot be excused or mitigated by the community or this court." She gave Martin 3 death sentences, plus 102 years in prison on related charges. "It was the most difficult decision this court has ever made," Tusan said.
But Martin's attorney, Tom West, expressed outrage at the sentence in an e-mail to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Judge Tusan had promised us an lLWOP [one life (term) without parole] sentence if we had a bench trial, and she sentenced the client to death today! This will not stand." 
As his murder trial was about to begin this week, Martin pleaded guilty to felony murder, murder, aggravated sodomy and robbery in the bloody October 2002 stabbing deaths of Savion Wright and his great-grandparents, Travis Ivery, 83, and his wife, Ila, 77.