DALLAS -- The last of the seven prison escapees is going to the execution chamber.
On Thursday, jurors in Dallas decided Patrick Murphy Jr.'s fate after he was convicted of killing a policeman.
He was convicted last week of capital murder for his role in the slaying of Irving Officer Aubrey Hawkins.
The lawman was gunned down and run over while trying to stop a Christmas Eve 2000 store robbery.
Seven inmates broke out of the Connally Unit, near Kenedy.
Six were captured in January of 2001 in Colorado, where the seventh killed himself.
The other five escapees were convicted in the Hawkins slaying and also were sentenced to death.
Murphy was serving a 50-year sentence for a 1984 aggravated assault in Dallas County when the prison break happened.
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