The law came up in the capital murder trial of Erica Yvonne Sheppard, who was sentenced to death in March 1995. The jury heard evidence that Sheppard, then 19, and co-defendant James Dickerson, snuck ...

His mother, Yvonne, is a singer. At age 3, Sheppard would cry for his mother to lift him onto the family's piano bench so he could poke at the keys. As he grew, so did his talent.