Former Kaufman County Justice of the Peace Eric Williams will spend at least one more night in the county jail in Kaufman before he heads for death row.

A jury in Rockwall County, where the trial was moved in a change of venue, sentenced him to death Dec. 17 after deliberating for a total of a little more than three hours. He was convicted for the 2013 shooting death of Cynthia McLelland, who along with her husband, District Attorney Cynthia McLelland, died of multiple gunshots in their home on Easter Eve.

Williams is also accused of killing prosecutor Mark Hasse in January of 2013 in the parking lot of the Kaufman County Courthouse. He has not been tried in the deaths of the two prosecutors.

Williams' wife, Kim, who is also accused of participating in the killings, testifief against her husband in an effort to avoid the death penalty. She said they celebrated with a steak dinner after the deaths of the McLellands.

She also told the jury that her husband told her Hasse begged for his life, and he seemed to get a sense of satisfaction out of the prosecutor's reaction.

In reaching the death sentence, the jury determined that Williams represented a continued threat to society. Prosecutors said he had other county officials on a hit list he had not yet carried out when he was arrested.

Judge Mike Snipes called Williams a psychopath, and he compared him to Charles Manson.

Williams will be transferred soon to a Texas Department of Criminal Justice death row unit in Livingston.

McLelland's relatives told Williams in court after the sentencing that they planned to be there during his execution to watch him die.

Snipes said Kaufman County residents could finally "rest easy" with the knowledge Williams would be executed.

Kaufman County officials held a press conference to express relief about the end of the trial and the death sentence.

Pictured below are Williams and his wife.