Man who killed 2 persons required to register as sex offenders was sentenced to death.
Rocky Ali Beamon, who had killed three people, two of which were persons on the registry with whom he was incarcerated, was sentenced to death this past Friday.
He was in prison for a murder charge, when in 2012 at Apalachee Correctional Institution in Jackson County, he killed his cellmate who was on the sex offender registry. in 2017 he killed another person on the registry. According to the Miami Herald, in May of 2018, Beamon wrote a letter to 14th District Judicial Circuit Judge Christopher Patterson in which he professed that killing sex offenders “was the best feeling I’ve had in a long time.”
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Instead of responding to different comments I’ll just say this here. It is horrible what happened here, but that is prison sometimes. In Florida for the most part it is not as bad as other states, no kill on sight state wide here. This person who is now on death row obviously has some issues and will never get them addressed, so be it. I hope he lives long enough to understand what he has done and feels grief for it.
I know for a fact that before cell phones everywhere some inmates could ask a guard, at the front gate all inmates can be looked up, and often they don’t mind letting other inmates know. So much for care in their job description. Now with cell phones it is ready to look up anyone at any time.
My husband was in Apalachee for one year. It was horrible. It is one of the prisons that led the head of the union for prison guards in south Florida to say that Florida prisons are nothing more than modern day dungeons. Ben Conarck, the journalist who was at the Jacksonville Florida Times Union and now is working for the Miami Herald, did several great articles about that prison, causing FDOC to make some changes. The inmates were so appreciative of what he did for them.
An example of what the climate was like there three years before my husband arrived:
https://thegrio.com/2018/01/31/prison-guard-allegedly-beat-black-inmate-because-he-wanted-to-marry-a-white-woman/
My husband is in a far better place now.
Here is one more recently in the news. No one believes the inmates and are told to shut up when they complain.
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2019/09/22/florida-prisons-are-unsafe-one-reason-the-guards-editorial/