Jasper Phillip Rushing (b.
1980) was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole
for the murder of his stepfather in 2001 when he attacked and killed
his cellmate, 41-year-old Shannon Palmer. A correctional officer came
to serve them lunch around noon on September 10, 2010, after they had
been sharing the cell for about two weeks. Rushing confessed to the
officer that he had murdered his cellmate.
It
was not a healthy environment in there.
It
makes no sense a...
Gary Whitton was sentenced to die in Florida's electric chair
for the October 9, 1990 beating and slaying of a friend to death, James Mauldin (“Jimmy”), a fellow alcoholic, in a fight that left a
motel room covered with blood. The men fought for more than 30
minutes at a motel after Jimmy had gone on a drinking binge.
Gary
delivered massive blowsto Jimmy's head and neck
“that would have brought down a drunk elephant”.