ron petrillo was the defense investigator on the case. >> i knew when i heard all of this going on, comingut of the jury room what the final outcome was going to be. >> the jury returned guilty verdicts in less than four hours. >> and then when it went to the penalty phase, the judge gave him the death sentence. >> during his ruling, the judge declared the coldness and calculated manner in which the defendant executed his heinous plan could not be overstated. kris would officially begin his time on death row. >> once they gave me the death sentence, i said god knows i am innocent. they will not kill me. they cannot. >> kris was from england, a country that had abolished the death penalty for murder in 1965. with one of their citizens on death row, the british government asked clive stafford smith to investigate the case. he was a young lawyer who made a name for himself fighting death penalty cases on a pro bono basis. >> by the time i had gotten there in '94, he had been sentenced to death, had gone up to the u.s. supreme court on appeal, it had come back down. my first thought was, oh, m