Trucker Convicted in Deaths of 19 Illegal Immigrants - Texas

“A truck driver was found guilty of all charges Monday and faces possible execution in the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants who suffocated in his airless trailer in South Texas in 2003.

In a retrial of the nation’s deadliest human trafficking case, the federal jury that convicted the driver, Tyrone M. Williams, 35, of Schenectady, N.Y., begins hearing testimony Wednesday on whether to give Mr. Williams the first death sentence under a 12-year-old “alien smuggling” statute or a lesser term of up to life in prison.”

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