Derlyn Ray Threats listens to testimony at his preliminary hearing in 2006 at the Vista Courthouse.
Threats was convicted of murder and is now on death row at San Quentin State Prison.
(File Photo by Bill Wechter - North County Times Staff Photographer)

Derlyn Ray Threats

Defense Attorney James Weintre tries to comfort Derlyn Threats as a guilty verdict was handed down
by a jury. Threats was found guilty of murder with special circumstances.
(Photo by Nick Morris - For the North County Times)

Derlyn Ray Threats, 28, listens Friday as a jury recommends that he be put to death for the 2005
murder and torture of Carolyn Neville, who interrupted a robbery in her Vista home.
 (Photo by John Koster - For The North County Times)

Derlyn Ray Threats

Stephen Neville, who was married to 24-year-old Carolyn Neville, talks to reporters after a jury
recommended that her killer be sentenced to death.
(Photo by John Koster - For The North County Times)

An undated photo of Carlyn Neville. (Courtesy photo)

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