A Georgia judge threw the book at Brian Nichols on Saturday, giving him four consecutive sentences of life without parole for a 2005 shooting rampage that started in an Atlanta courthouse.
An Atlanta judge explains the sentencing decision of life without parole in the Brian Nichols courthouse killer case.
Atlanta courthouse shooter Brian Nichols was spared a death sentence Friday after the jury deliberating his fate announced that it could not agree on a sentence.
Jurors struggling to agree on a sentence for Atlanta courthouse shooter Brian Nichols asked Thursday to listen to a jailhouse phone call between the defendant and his brother.
Jurors in the Brian Nichols trial were ordered Thursday to resume deliberating his punishment, despite their assertion earlier in the day that they were unable to reach a unanimous agreement.
A jury began a second day of deliberations Wednesday for Brian Nichols, convicted last month in the 2005 shooting deaths of four people, including three at a downtown Atlanta courthouse.
A jury spent Tuesday deliberating the fate of Brian Nichols for the 2005 shooting deaths of four people, including three at a downtown Atlanta courthouse, without reaching a verdict.
Prosecutor Clint Rucker called on Monday for a jury to sentence Brian Nichols to death for the 2005 shooting deaths of four people, including three at a downtown Atlanta courthouse.
Relatives and friends of a judge and court reporter killed in a 2005 shooting at Atlanta's Fulton County Courthouse took the stand Thursday in the penalty phase of the gunman's trial.
Brian Nichols is convicted on 54 counts in a March 2005 courthouse escape and the slayings of four people.
Attorney BJ Bernstein discusses the guilty verdict in the Brian Nichols trial.
Brian Nichols was convicted Friday of murdering four people in a shooting rampage that began at a courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia. The jury next must decide whether he should be executed for his crimes.
Jurors on Friday began a second day of deliberations in the capital murder trial of a man accused of escaping from custody and killing four people, three of them at an Atlanta, Georgia, courthouse.
Ashley Smith, who was taken hostage by Brian Nichols in 2005, testified against Nichols saying "he was very angry."
Brian Nichols pleads not guilty to his alleged role in a courthouse shooting rampage in Atlanta.
The capital murder trial of Atlanta courthouse gunman Brian Nichols will be moved from the scene of the crime, a judge ruled Thursday.
Brian Nichols who is accused of a deadly shooting rampage at an Atlanta courthouse in 2005 pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity
The judge overseeing the murder trial of accused courthouse shooter Brian Nichols said Thursday he won't step down from the case
The judge presiding over the case of accused Atlanta courthouse shooter Brian Nichols recused himself from the case Wednesday.
When one of Atlanta's most notorious criminals held journalist Don O'Briant at gunpoint, the incident changed his life.
When one of Atlanta's most notorious criminals held journalist Don O'Briant at gunpoint, the incident changed his life.
I will never forget anchoring my newscast on March 11, 2005, and the 26 hours that followed. I wasn't going to be getting much sleep for two reasons: CNN's ongoing coverage and worrying that a suspected killer was on the loose in my city.
Jail officials in Atlanta said Wednesday they have intercepted letters revealing an escape plot between courthouse shooting suspect Brian Nichols and another "high profile" inmate.
A grand jury indicted two men Wednesday in the 2001 stabbing death of Daniel McFarland Smith, husband of the woman hailed as a hero for turning in a man accused of killing a judge and three other people in Atlanta.
Ashley Smith, who was held hostage after the Atlanta courthouse killings in March, has signed a book deal with HarperCollins Publishers, the company said Wednesday.
Brian Nichols pleaded not guilty Tuesday to multiple counts stemming from a deadly March shooting spree that began in an Atlanta courthouse.
Prosecutors said Tuesday they will seek the death penalty in the state case against courthouse shooting suspect Brian G. Nichols.
A 33-year-old man accused in a shooting rampage that left three people dead at Atlanta's Fulton County Courthouse appeared in the same courthouse Friday.
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When Brian Nichols allegedly stole a sheriff's deputy's gun and went on a killing and carjacking spree, it wasn't a terrorist incident.
Following the lead of Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, two other law enforcement groups said Wednesday that they would pay thousands of dollars in reward money to Ashley Smith, the woman hailed as a hero for bringing a peaceful end to the manhunt for Brian Nichols.
The brother of Brian Nichols remembers his younger sibling as the stable one who excelled intellectually and athletically -- and the last person he'd have expected to soon face murder charges.
A judge denied bail Tuesday morning for Brian Nichols, the suspect in the Atlanta killings of a judge, a deputy sheriff, a court reporter and a federal agent.
In the end, Brian Nichols gave up without a struggle in a peaceful but curious conclusion to a violent rampage that left four people dead and a city on edge.
Brian Nichols, accused of killing four people during an escape from an Atlanta, Georgia, courthouse, was an intelligent youth with a playful, joking personality, said childhood friends.
Brian Nichols -- who became the subject of the largest manhunt in Georgia history after a deadly courthouse rampage last Friday -- will make an initial court appearance Tuesday morning at the Fulton County Jail, authorities said.
The woman held hostage by Atlanta courthouse shooting suspect Brian Nichols gained his trust by talking with him for hours and spoke of her 5-year-old daughter in a bid to win his sympathy, she told reporters Sunday.
Suspected Atlanta courthouse killer Brian Nichols, who is expected to appear in court as soon as Monday, is "defiant" and "kind of proud of his activities," Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said.
The following is a chronology of the events surrounding the shootings Friday morning at a courthouse in Atlanta -- and the subsequent manhunt for the suspect. All times are approximate.
Brian Nichols, the suspect in the fatal shootings of four people, will face both federal and state charges, officials said Saturday afternoon, hours after he was captured in an Atlanta suburb.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Rowland W. Barnes told attorneys Thursday that he was concerned rape suspect Brian Nichols could pose a danger if he was convicted, the suspect's attorney said Friday evening.
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