USA - Texas. A jury sentenced Bartholomew Granger, 42, Black, to death.

A Jefferson County jury sentenced Bartholomew Granger, 42, Black, to death. Granger, 42, was convicted last week of capital murder in the slaying of Minnie Ray Sebolt. The same jurors who found him guilty deliberated for a little less than 2 hours before deciding on the death penalty. Granger testified that he opened fire on his daughter outside the courthouse in downtown Beaumont on March 14, 2012 but insisted he did not kill Sebolt. She was a bystander walking outside the courthouse, where Granger's daughter had testified against him in a sexual assault case. The daughter and her mother were among three women wounded in the attack. Granger testified during the trial that he emptied the 10-bullet magazine of his illegally purchased semi-automatic carbine, saying he fired toward his daughter. Then, when he saw his daughter was still moving while lying in the street, he ran over her with his pickup truck. The daughter spent 3 months in a coma. The trial was moved 75 miles to Galveston, so jurors didn't have to walk past the crime scene each day. Granger's daughter, now 22, was among the witnesses who testified against him.