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Death Row Inmate Pleads Guilty To Murdering Cellmate
August 20, 2019
An inmate already on death row has pleaded guilty to murdering his cellmate.
Rocky Ali Beamon entered guilty plea to first degree premeditated murder for the January 2017 murder of inmate Nicholas Anderson.
Beamon and Anderson were cellmates at the Santa Rosa Correctional Institution. Beamon punched the victim in the face, tied his hands and feet together, and strangled him with bed sheets. Beamon also stabbed the Anderson in the neck with a homemade weapon, but the cause of death was strangulation.
The State Attorney is seeking the death penalty for Beamon, and he faces a minimum sentence of life in prison. Since Beamon waived his right to a jury trial to determine his sentence, he will be sentenced by Judge Darlene Dickey. The sentenced date has not yet been set.
Beamon is current on death row for the July 2012 murder of a sex offender inmate at the Apalachee Correctional Institution in Jackson County, Florida. He is also serving a life sentence for murder in a 2005 case in Hillsborough County, Florida.
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10 Responses to “Death Row Inmate Pleads Guilty To Murdering Cellmate”
Rocky is my friend. He killed 2 sex offenders 2012 & 2017. 2017 Nicolas Anderson rocky found him masturbating over a photo of his children. I’m not sure if I agree with it all but I can understand why he did it. How many men out there can say they WOULDNT kill a man for doing that? I sure would or I would be pretty close!
I agree with Jailbird.
You cannot execute a man twice.
Looks like Mr. Anderson was also a sex offender (L/L MOLEST V<12 OFF 18+)
2 for 2…Sounds like he is doing our country a great service.
Well Ben this is true. Check the number that is owned technically by Florida but are contracted out to private companies.
There are a total of 7 private prisons in Florida. Talk about drinking the koolaid.
So he has murdered at least three people, maybe more. Yes, he could be executed today. However, he is doing the job that the judges and the state have not done. This story does not say why Anderson was in prison but we presume it was murder becuase he was a cellmate of Beamon who was on Death Row. I think every murderer deserves the death penalty. But maybe we keep Beamon as a deterrent.
Hey pop most prisons in Florida are privately owned and that translates into “for profit” you arent paying for anything other than a guy in a suit’s Ferrari…stop drinking the koolaid!!
Looks as if he is proud of his deed…expedite his appointment with Satan.
The dept. of corrections needs to use this guy as a tool. If a inmate does not go by the rules and act up. You get Beamon as a cell partner.
So I guess we’ll just feed him and house him another 15 yrs?? Why not execute him today??