Jury Recommends Death In Prison Guard Killing
POSTED: Friday, October 30, 2009
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A jury recommended the death penalty for an inmate who killed a Daytona Beach corrections officer.The decision took 2½ hours of deliberation Thursday. Enoch Hall was already serving two life sentences in the sexual battery and kidnapping of a 66-year-old woman.He stabbed 50-year-old Donna Fitzgerald 22 times with sheet metal in 2008, the first fatal attack on a Florida guard in five years.Fitzgerald was alone while supervising Hall and others in an inmate work program. An investigation determined Hall may not have been eligible for the program and Fitzgerald should've had a radio or body alarm to summon help.The prison has since hired a new warden, demoted three employees and restricted inmate access to sheet metal, tools and chemicals.
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