A Florida prison inmate already on death row for ki*lling a fellow inmate has received another death sentence for ki*lling a different inmate.
The Pensacola News Journal reports that 41-year-old Rocky Ali Beamon received his new sentence last week. He pleaded guilty in August to first-degree murd*er.
Authorities say Beamon strangled and stabbed 27-year-old Nicholas Anderson in January 2017 when they shared a cell at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution in Milton.
He had previously been sentenced to death for fatally choking and stabbing Bruce Hunsicker in the shower area of Apalachee Correctional Institution in Sneads in July 2012. Beamon said he ki*lled Hunsicker because the man was a se*x offender.
Beamon was there serving a life sentence for a 2005 mur*der case from Hillsborough County.
In a plea deal executed in 2005, Beamon was sentenced to life in prison on charges of murd*er, kid*napping and robbery.
On Feb. 13, 2015, Debbie Lacey’s sister told sheriff’s deputies that she had not seen Lacey in a week. Four days later, deputies arrested two men driving her 1998 Lincoln Continental. The men said they had traded crack cocaine for the car several days earlier.
On the same day they found the car, deputies found Lacey’s body in a wooded area near Mirror Lake in Seffner.
Within hours of finding Lacey, investigators traced the Lincoln to Beamon and his girlfriend, Karen Wilkins. The couple admitted they tried to rob Lacey. Beamon said he hit her on the head with a stick, tied her hands behind her back and taped her mouth, deputies said.
He also admitted putting her head under water until she drowned, deputies said.
Wilkins pleaded guilty to second-degree mur*der, ki*dnapping and robbery. She was sentenced to 30 years in prison and 10 years’ probation.
