A former justice of the peace in North Texas has been sentenced to death for killing a district attorney's wife in what prosecutors have described as a revenge plot that left three people dead. Eric Williams was convicted on December 4 of capital murder in the 2013 death of Cynthia McLelland, who was slain along with her husband, Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, in their home east of Dallas. Williams has been charged, but not tried, in the deaths of Mike McLelland and prosecutor Mark Hasse. Scroll down for video Eric Williams has been sentenced to death for killing a district attorney's wife Cynthia McLelland in what prosecutors have described as a revenge plot that left three people dead
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Eric Williams was convicted earlier this month of killing Cynthia McLelland
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He has also been charged, but not tried, in the deaths of her DA husband Mike McLelland and prosecutor Mark Hasse
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Williams had lost his job and law license after McLelland and Hasse prosecuted him for theft and burglary
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On Wednesday he was sentenced to death in what prosecutors have described as a revenge plot
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