KTLA The WB | Aryan Inmate Capital Trials to Start

Informants are plentiful as the biggest death penalty case on record seeks to break the prison gang in the same way the Mafia was decades ago. Armed with a shank, Barry 'The Baron' Mills, the kingpin of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, nearly decapitated an inmate in a bathroom stall for hoarding drugs. Edgar 'The Snail' Hevle, a trusted lieutenant in the Brotherhood, allegedly arranged for the murder of a prisoner who threw a packet of sugar at him, a slight he apparently considered worthy of a violent death. And Tommy 'Terrible Tom' Silverstein, who had earned his stripes by killing three inmates, escaped from his shackles on the way back from the prison showers and killed a guard by stabbing him 20 times.