Inmate Sentenced To 30 Years For Killing Cellmate

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — An inmate who pleaded guilty to beating his cellmate to death as they drank homemade alcohol in their Maryland cell has been sentenced to 30 years in prison without parole.
The Hagerstown Herald-Mail reports the sentence 36-year-old Mark Andrew Topper received Monday comes on top of lengthy sentences he already faces for previous convictions.
Topper pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder in the 2016 death of 26-year-old Benjamin Hall, who was serving a theft