NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) — A Texas prison inmate has been convicted of capital murder in the 2015 beating death of a guard who was escorting the handcuffed inmate to a cell.
Billy Joel Tracy was convicted Friday in New Boston. The attack happened July 15, 2015, as Corrections Officer Timothy Davison was escorting Tracy from a dayroom back to his cell at the Telford Unit.
The punishment phase begins Wednesday. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Investigators say Tracy slipped one hand out of a cuff, grabbed Davison's tray slot bar and used it to beat the officer. Such bars are used to man...
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