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...