Facts of the Crime:

Was sentenced to death for an August 1994 rampage in which he stabbed to death a Hall County woman and injured her two children. The jury found Franks guilty of 12 felonies in connection with the murder of 35-year-old Deborah Wilson and the stabbing of her two children, ages 13 and 9. Franks is also accused of shooting to death Deborah Wilson's husband, Clinton, and his helper, David Martin, just hours earlier in the basement of his pawnshop in Haralson County. He has not been tried on those charges.