Ex Parte Williams

Jason Oric Williams was convicted of the capital murders of Gerald Paravicini, Freddie Barber, Linda Barber, and Bryan Barber, and the trial judge sentenced him to death, following the jury's recommendation of that sentence. We affirm both the convictions and his death sentence.

Although at trial Williams did not admit to the killings, he did not dispute the State's evidence that he killed Paravicini and the Barbers by shooting them with a .22 caliber rifle. Williams presented the defense of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect; he alleged that his claimed mental defect was the…