Five years ago Mona Lee Shelton, 46, and Donna Marie Cary, 45, were shot to death by Mickey David Thomas in a monument business in De Queen, Ark.

The pain of the crime resurfaced Friday for the women’s families after they listened to court-appointed attorneys ask for a new trial for Thomas.

After his trial was moved from Sevier County because of pre-trial publicity, a Pike County jury convicted Thomas on Sept. 28, 2005, for the murders of the two women and gave him a double-death sentence.

If his conviction is upheld, Thomas will be executed by lethal inject...

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