He was scheduled to die in 1995 for hiring a man to kill a police informer.
The use of police informers has sometimes been criticized as excessive.
According to court records, he was an accused drug dealer turned police informer.
Other members had suspected him of being a police informer.
But the "hit man" was actually a police informer and he tipped off the authorities to the offer.
In fact, he had been working as a paid police informer.
He was convicted for the murders with the help of a police informer in May 2002.
The Gophers were especially known for their violence against police informers.
Two men have gone on trial for the murder of a police informer, whose body was found weighted down in a lake three years ago.
Eventually the other girls come to believe that Donna is a police informer.