Pat Bondurant, now 49, has been sentenced to death...

Pat Bondurant, now 49, has been sentenced to death after a retrial on charges of beating Ronnie Gaines to death in 1986. Bondurant was first convicted in 1991 of murdering Gaines, Pulaski Rubber Co. He also was given a death sentence after that verdict. He spent 3 years on Tennessee's death row but was moved into the general inmate population at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville after he won a new trial. He stayed in prison because he was convicted of a 2nd murder. The new trial was ordered because Maury County Circuit Judge Jim T. Hamilton allowed sequestered jurors to drive their cars to and from the courthouse, which may have exposed them to radio reports regarding the proceedings, and Hamilton allowed a court clerk to use a telephone book to select potential jurors after the regular jury pool was exhausted.