Posted on 04/07/2016 12:40:05 PM PDT by DCBryan1
A 41-year-old inmate at the Varner Unit was shot and killed Thursday while attempting to escape, according to a spokesman with the Arkansas Department of Correction.
Spokesman Solomon Graves identified the inmate as Christopher Wilson of Saltillo. Wilson had been at the prison since 2003 after receiving a life sentence without parole for pleading guilty to two counts of capital murder, records show.
Wilson entered the plea to avoid the death penalty in the December 2002 beating deaths of a woman and her 8-month-old son, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Sept. 3, 2003.
The husband of Pamela Kay Reed, 26, found his wife's body in the driveway of their Saltillo home on Arkansas 286, according to the newspaper. The son, Lucas Aaron Reed, was found bludgeoned to death inside the residence.
Correction department officials as well as Arkansas State Police are investigating. Graves said that details at this point in the investigation are limited.
Check back with ArkansasOnline for updates on this developing story and read Friday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
Regardless of whether this was a true escape attempt or suicide by prison guard, I’m not sorry about the final result.
Plea bargain, it saves a few thousand dollars of court expenses.
Good...saves the taxpayer lots of money.
Faster resolution than if he had gotten a death sentence instead of pleading out.
A clear win-win situation.
Talking a death penalty case. It saves 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars to plead out instead of successfully going for a death penalty. Most of the numbers seem to be from anti-death penalty folks, and are suspect, but the costs of trials, multiple appeals, and death row housing are clearly many times higher than a plea, no appeal, and general population even in a high security prison.
Hmm, my reading of the article is he killed someone else's wife and child, and the poor dude found his dead wife on the driveway.
What price justice?
Good. Saving taxpayer money.
Well, it was a white dude, so he might actually have been executed eventually. (The most common cause of death on death row is old age). But it would be unlikely to have happened as quickly as this. In 2012, it was an average of 198 months (16.5 years) and that includes the guys who throw in the towel. If someone doesn’t voluntarily give up, it’s going to be longer.
Marksmanship medal for the alert prison guard, and authorization for notch on the stock of his firearm.
The government needed to keep him quiet. And it matters who gets killed. And he was a white male. Let’s see how long the Muzzi Tsarnaev takes.
George Lott went 18 months from killing two prosecutors (and wounding two judges) to execution following a child custody case. (White male, of course.)
but he didn’t suffer....he died quickly....these animals need to FEEL pain the way their victims did...
it seemed they just wanted him dead...dead men don't talk...
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