A man convicted of killing a Texas sheriff's deputy in a shootout at his house was sentenced to death Tuesday, just days after he was found guilty of capital murder.

Randall Wayne Mays, 48, was convicted Friday of killing Henderson County deputy Tony Price Ogburn after a neighbor called to report gunshots a year ago on Mays' property in Payne Springs, about 50 miles southeast of Dallas.

After appearing to cooperate, Mays barricaded himself inside his house and used a high-powered rifle to shoot at officers. Ogburn's fellow deputy Paul Steven Habelt died, and a third deputy was injured.

Mays' brother, Noble Mays Jr., was executed in 1995 for fatally stabbing a Good Samaritan who agreed to help him with a disabled car.

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