04-06-2017 20:21 via 10tv.com

Death penalty trial to begin for inmate in guard's slaying

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Opening statements are scheduled Monday in federal court in the death penalty trial of an inmate charged in a Pennsylvania federal prison guard's death more than four years ago.Jessie Con-ui, 40, is charged in the February 2013 stabbing death of corrections officer Eric Williams at the Canaan federal prison in Waymart. Williams, 34, was working in a housing unit at the prison when he was attacked. Con-ui was angry after the guard ordered a search of his cell the previo
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