While She Slept

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. 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...