HOUSTON (CMC):
A JAMAICAN-BORN truck driver who last year was spared execution in what has been described as one of the deadliest migrant smuggling cases in the United States could still face the death penalty.
A retrial has since been ordered by the Fifth Federal Circuit Court in Houston, Texas.
The three judges in the court wrote that a Houston jury last March failed to convict Tyrone Williams "of any offence," and, as such, he must be retired.
Williams was convicted last March on 38 counts in the deaths of 19 of 74 illegal immigrants whom it is alleged he crammed into his airtight tractor-trailer and trafficked them into the United States.
Williams had abandoned the vehicle.
He was spared the death penalty since the jury could not agree on whether he bore direct responsi-bility for the migrants' deaths.
