Facts of the Crime:
18-year-old Jimmy Ray Williams used a nine-mm weapon to rob and murder Gordon Lawless, a driver for an auto parts store on June 15, 1994. Gordon was sitting in his truck in a parking lot, having just made a delivery, when Williams approached him and asked for a cigarette. Lawless gave him one and then Williams pulled his gun and shot Gordon in the face. The medical examiner testified that Gordon died from drowning in his own blood. Williams confessed to the killing but claimed it was an accident. Evidence presented at Williams' trial showed that several hours before Gordon's murder, another man was shot and his vehicle was stolen.
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