He was a former justice of peace in Texas, but 37-year-old Eric Williams found himself on the other end of the justice system as he was sentenced on Wednesday to death for killing Cynthia McLelland in 2013.

Besides McLelland, also dead were Cynthia's husband, Mike McLelland, who was the district attorney of Kaufman County, and Mark Hasse, a prosecutor.

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Hasse and McLelland were behind the first conviction of Williams for burglary and theft. Among the evidence that the two presented that led to the conviction of Williams were 30 guns, police tactical gear and a getaway vehicle that he kept in a rented storage unit, reports LA Times.

Williams sought revenge by gunning down Hasse first in January 2013 while the prosecutor was walking his way to his office. In March, he entered the McLelland's home and shot the couple to death more than a dozen times.

Kim Williams, his estranged wife, is a co-accused for helping him kill the three by driving the getaway vehicle after he gunned down Hasse and helping Williams in getting rid of the guns he used to murder the McLelland couple.

Besides his three victims, Williams had a hit list that included Glen Ashworth, the for state district judge, and Erleigh Norville Wiley, the new district attorney of Kaufman county, disclosed Kim.

She confirmed the hit list and added, quoted by Galveston Daily, "He told me he ever decided to take everybody out, he was going to kill me too and then kill himself."

While she has no deal with prosecutors in exchange for her testimony against her ex-husband, Kim said she hopes they will give her some lenience.

For a man who once served as a justice of peace, new prosecutor Bill Wirskye described Williams as a "ruthless killing machine."

It took the Rockwell County jury two and a half hours of deliberation on the punishment for Williams.

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