USA - Texas. A jury sentenced William Mason to death.

An Harris County jury sentenced William Mason to death. Mason, 61, White, Mason was sentenced to death in Harris County on August 12, 1992 in the Jan. 17, 1991 death of his wife, Deborah Ann Mason, 33, and went to court again earlier this month after being granted a retrial for the punishment phase. He had been out of prison just 18 days after serving time for a murder and an attempted murder. Jurors also heard testimony that Mason had risen to the rank of captain in the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a notorious prison gang. He spent more than a decade behind bars on a 55-year-sentence for robbing and killing a black man in 1977. The retrial was a result a Supreme Court ruling that determined jurors did not hear mitigating evidence in some death penalty cases from that era. He was facing either death or a prison sentence under the law as it was at the time of the slaying, which meant he could have been paroled in as little as 15 years. District Judge Marc Carter has not set a date for confirmation.