While She Slept

UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH. By 1998, Jill and Jeff Cahill's marriage was already over. With a divorce pending, his life was in shambles. Then, a pre-dawn argument between them came to an end when Jeff crushed her skull with an aluminum baseball bat. Fearing her testimony in an assault trial, he slipped unnoticed into her Syracuse hospital room and gave her a dose of potassium cyanide, killing her instantly. It took the jury only five hours to find him guilty. BUT THE CONTROVERSIAL CASE AGAINST JEFF CAHILL WAS JUST BEGINNING. Jeff Cahill's trial would provoke one of the most passionate and furious debates about the death penalty in recent New York history leaving Jill Cahill's grief-stricken family survivors to wonder... WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO SEAL HER KILLER'S FATE AS SURELY AS HE HAD SEALED HERS?Collins, Marion is the author of 'While She Slept', published 2005 under ISBN 9780312933968 and ISBN 0312933967.