Such a situation could be a drug conspiracy or people forced into being accomplices by a mob leader.

"He got twelve years in a drug conspiracy."

In 1993 state prosecutors in Alabama, where they lived, charged them both with drug conspiracy.

The other defendants could face up to life for taking part in the drug conspiracy.

Johnson was under a federal indictment for drug conspiracy when he died of heart failure on Sunday, July 7, 1968 at age 62.

The Federal case would be the first use of a 1988 law allowing the death penalty for murders committed to further drug conspiracies.

Seven members of his group were also convicted of various charges including murder, kidnapping and drug conspiracy.

The men were charged with drug conspiracy, money laundering and other crimes.

Four years ago, he was imprisoned on a federal charge of drug conspiracy.

While Gall was living in Arizona, federal agents approached him as part of an investigation into the drug conspiracy.