Was a highly educated doctor. Now, he faces the death penalty for a lawyer's murder

Tomasz Roman Kosowski, 47, an Ivy League–educated plastic surgeon and accused killer of attorney Steven Cozzi, is set to stand trial Monday and faces the death penalty. Prosecutors allege Kosowski murdered Cozzi in the men’s room of a Clearwater, Florida law office, then transported the body in his truck and discarded it in a remote dumpster. In court, Kosowski has said he does not want anything presented that could weigh against capital punishment, arguing the judge—not a jury—should decide guilt and whether he should die. The article traces his journey from Poland to the U.S. in the early 1980s and his academic path through universities including Dartmouth.