"I'm backing him 100 percent," the husband, David Smith, said of the decision by Tommy Pope, the prosecutor, to seek the death penalty for Susan V. Smith.

Tommy Pope, the local district attorney, told reporters that he "sensed a fear among jurors and witnesses that the case would become "O. J. East.

It was as if the young prosecutor, Tommy Pope, suddenly got religion.

She is being held without bail, and the county prosecutor, Tommy Pope, will present the case to a state grand jury in early December, seeking indictments on two murder charges.

The prosecutor, Tommy Pope, has rejected an offer to have Mrs. Smith serve 30 years in prison.

The prosecutor, Tommy Pope, said he was still unwilling to let Mrs. Smith's lawyers plea bargain for a prison sentence, even life in prison.

Tommy Pope, the prosecutor facing Mr. Bruck in the Smith trial, may be less admiring.

Tommy Pope, the Union County prosecutor, hedged when asked if he would seek the death penalty.

It is that woman who Tommy Pope, a young prosecutor in charge of the case, will try to send to death row.

The prosecutor, Tommy Pope, has argued that Mrs. Smith killed her children to reclaim a wealthy lover who said he did not want a relationship that involved children.