(July 22, 1935 – April 6, 2016) was an American attorney and judge who developed a national reputation as a tough prosecutor, and for successfully pursuing a large number of death penalty convictions.
He was also well-known by the judicial system for having misconduct in approximately one third of his cases, such as hiding evidence from the defence.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists him as the "deadliest prosecutor in America", with 47 death row convictions to his name as of 1988.