Jewish Man Sentenced to Death by Antisemitic Judge

For much of his life, Randy Halprin struggled with his Jewish identity. Throughout childhood, the now-44-year-old death row inmate strove to please his Jewish father and prove he was worthy of a bar mitzvah -- the Jewish rite of passage that signifies a boy's becoming a man. But as he stood trial on capital murder charges before Dallas County District Judge Vickers "Vic" Cunningham in 2003, his religion became the very reason he now faces execution, a Texas judge has determined.