Darlie Routier - Sentencing

Sentencing

Routier was ultimately convicted of murdering the younger of her two sons, and was sentenced to death by lethal injection. Prosecutors did not try Routier for the death of her older son, holding his murder in reserve in case Routier was acquitted in the first murder trial or her conviction was overturned on appeal. This is possible as there is no statute of limitations on any murder charge in Texas. In an ironic twist of history Routier's defense attorney, Douglas Mulder, was the prosecutor responsible for the wrongful conviction and subsequent death penalty (both since overturned) of Randall Adams in 1977. The Adams case is profiled in the documentary The Thin Blue Line.