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Edgar Garcia Federal Death Row

Edgar Garcia and Mark Snarr were convicted and sentenced to death by the Federal Government for the murder of a fellow inmate at the Beaumont Prison in Texas. According to court documents Edgar Garcia and Mark Snarr would attack a couple of correctional guards to obtain the keys to the victim, Gabriel Rhone, cell. Once they obtained the keys they would enter the victims cell and stab him over fifty times causing his death. Two correctional guards were injured in the attack. Edgar Garcia and Mark Snarr are both on Federal Death Row as of 2021

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Edgar Garcia 2021 Information

Register Number: 28132-177
Age:	41
Race:	White
Sex:	Male
Located at: Terre Haute USP
Release Date: DEATH SENT

Mark Snarr 2021 Information

Register Number: 11093-081
Age:	45
Race:	White
Sex:	Male
Located at: Terre Haute USP
Release Date: DEATH SENT

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Two federal inmates have been sentenced to die for the murder of a fellow prisoner at the U.S. Penitentiary in Beaumont (USP-Beaumont) announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.

Mark Issac Snarr, 34, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Edgar Balthazar Garcia, 30, of Abilene, Texas were sentenced to the death penalty today by U.S. District Judge Marcia Crone. Snarr and Garcia were found guilty by a jury of capital murder on May 7, 2010 following a trial which began on May 3, 2010. Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before recommending the death penalty.

According to information presented in court, on the afternoon of Nov. 28, 2007, Bureau of Prisons corrections officers were escorting inmates Snarr and Garcia to their cells at the USP-Beaumont. As they arrived at their cells, inmates Snarr and Garcia slipped from their hand restraints and immediately pulled homemade knives, or shanks, that had been hidden on their persons. The two began attacking one of the corrections officers, stabbing him in the chest and shoulders 23 times. The inmates then turned their attention to the other corrections officer and demanded that he turn over his cell keys. When he refused, he was stabbed twice before Snarr removed the keys from the guard’s belt.

Snarr and Garcia then unlocked the cell of inmate Gabriel Rhone. Snarr and Garcia immediately began to attack Rhone, stabbing him repeatedly with their shanks. Rhone was stabbed over 50 times, including a stab wound to his chest which penetrated his heart. Corrections officers were forced to use chemical agents through a locked door in order to stop the attack, which lasted several minutes and was captured by a surveillance camera. The wounded corrections officers and Rhone were transported to a local medical facility where Rhone was pronounced dead at approximately 4:15 pm.

Snarr and Garcia were indicted Jan. 21, 2009, and charged with first degree murder.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Joseph R. Batte, Kerry Klintworth and Antonetta Stancu.

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/houston/press-releases/2010/ho052410.htm

Joseph Ebron Federal Death Row

Joseph Ebron was sentenced to death by the Federal Government for the murder of a fellow inmate at the Beaumont Prison in Texas. According to court documents the prison murder was the third person that Joseph Ebron has committed the first being when he was just fifteen years old and the second when he was seventeen. Joseph Ebron was serving a life sentence when he would help another inmate, Marwin Mosley, murder the inmate who was stabbed one hundred six times. Due to Joseph Ebron past criminal activities it did not take the jury long to find him guilty and sentence him to death.

Joseph Ebron 2021 Information

Register Number: 08655-007
Age:	42
Race:	Black
Sex:	Male
Located at: Terre Haute USP
Release Date: DEATH SENT

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Jurors sentenced a Washington, D.C., man to death Monday for the murder of a fellow inmate at the federal prison in Beaumont.

Joseph Ebron, 30, was found guilty of helping with the May 7, 2005, stabbing death of Keith Barnes. It was the third murder Ebron’s has been convicted of in the last 15 years.

Ebron reacted violently to the announcement, according to federal prosecutors Joeseph Batte and John Craft, leaping to his feet, screaming obscenities and tossing a water pitcher in Batte’s direction before he was tackled by U.S. marshals.

No one was struck by the pitcher, Batte said.

Batte told the Beaumont Enterprise that Ebron’s two prior murder convictions, the first of which was committed when he was 15, likely contributed to the jury’s decision to impose the death penalty. Ebron committed the second murder in 1997 when he was 17, jurors heard, only a few months after being released from a Colorado youth correctional facility and returning to Washington, D.C.

“Ladies and gentlemen, there’s been a fire burning in Joseph Ebron since he was 15 years old, a fire that’s continued to burn throughout his adult life up to 2005, and I’d submit to you it is still burning,” Batte told jurors in his closing argument.

In the most recent killing, jurors heard, Ebron restrained Barnes while another inmate, Marwin Mosley, stabbed Barnes in the chest 106 times for reportedly testifying against a mutual associate. Mosley later killed himself in prison, a defense attorney said.

Batte and Craft argued that a death sentence is appropriate, in part, because as long as he is alive Ebron poses a threat to fellow inmates and correctional officers.

Katherine Scardino, one of the two Houston-based attorneys who defended Ebron, said that Ebron should be assigned an attorney to work on an appeal soon.

“There were a couple of points we felt like that were an issue for an appellate lawyer,” Scardino said

Scardino and Phillips submitted 35 mitigating factors for jurors to consider, many related to Ebron’s difficult childhood.

Ebron’s biological mother abandoned his family when he was 6 months old, jurors heard, and his father was coping with a heroin addiction while not in prison, providing little emotional support. The southeast Washington, D.C., neighborhood he grew up in is a high-crime area, an environment that interfered with his moral development. Since he was 15, Ebron’s attorneys noted, he has spent most of his life behind bars.

“This is Joseph Ebron’s world, but Joseph Ebron is going to live or die based on a world he’s never had a chance to live in, our world,” Phillips said in his closing. “But we must judge it by our rules.”

Ebron’s attorneys argued that he did not take a lead role in deciding to kill Barnes, but was instead brought into a plan already in place hours before it was executed. If Mosley and the other co-conspirators had not run into Ebron in the recreation yard that day, Barnes still would have been killed, Phillips argued, without Ebron’s participation.

Allowing him to live, prosecutors argued, would send the message to other prisoners that they can get away with murder.

“That fire that has been burning still is, and now it’s the time for you to put it out,” Batte told jurors at the end of his closing argument.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Man-condemned-for-killing-fellow-inmate-1741090.php

Christopher Cramer Federal Death Row

Christopher Cramer and Ricky Fackrell were sentenced to death for the murder of a fellow inmate at the Beaumont Prison in Texas. According to court documents Christopher Cramer and Ricky Fackrell as well as the victim Leo Johns were all members of the prison gang Soldiers Of The Aryan Culture. For whatever the reason Leo Johns fell out of favor with the group and was fatally stabbed by Cramer and Fackrell. Both men remain on Federal Death Row

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Christopher Cramer 2021 Information

Register Number: 10422-081
Age:	38
Race:	White
Sex:	Male
Located at: Terre Haute USP
Release Date: DEATH SENT

Ricky Fackrell 2021 Information

Register Number: 12324-081
Age:	37
Race:	White
Sex:	Male
Located at: Terre Haute USP
Release Date: DEATH SENT

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Two federal inmates convicted of killing another inmate at a Beaumont Prisonin the Eastern District of Texas were sentenced to death today.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown for the Eastern District of Texas made the announcement.

Ricky Fackrell, 34, of Vernal, Utah, and Christopher Cramer, 36, of Ogden, Utah, were indicted by a federal grand jury on March 3, 2016 and charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. They were both convicted by a federal jury of murder in the first degree on May 9, following a six-day trial before U.S. District Judge Marcia Crone. Today, after about eight hours of deliberation, the jury in Beaumont sentenced both Fackrell and Cramer to death. Judge Crone immediately sentenced the defendants accordingly.

“White supremacists subscribe to a repugnant, hateful ideology and use it to justify criminal activity,” Attorney General Sessions said. “The murder committed in this case was an act of senseless, barbaric violence. Now that the jury has spoken, justice will be done. I want to thank our fabulous prosecutors John Craft, Joseph Batte, and Sonia Jimenez for their hard work. With their help, this Department will continue to prosecute violent criminals with the aggressiveness and relentlessness necessary in cases like these.”

“These defendants had a violent history, and when the murder happens in a prison, it is clear that the defendants are always going to be a danger,” said U.S. Attorney Brown. “This was an appropriate case for the death penalty and we will continue to seek that punishment in the worst cases.”

According to information presented in court, beginning in March 2014, Cramer and Fackrell, inmates of the U.S. Penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas, conspired to murder fellow inmate, Leo Johns. On June 9, 2014, Cramer and Fackrell stabbed Leo Johns to death at the federal prison. All three inmates were members of the white supremacy group, Soldiers of the Aryan Culture.

This case was investigated by the FBI and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons Special Investigative Services. This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys John Craft and Joseph R. Batte of the Eastern District of Texas and Trial Attorney Sonia V. Jimenez of the Justice Department’s Capital Case Section.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/white-supremacists-sentenced-death-murdering-fellow-inmate-texas-prison

Carlos Caro Federal Death Row

Carlos Caro was sentenced to death by the Federal Government for the murder of a fellow inmate at a Federal Institute in Virginia. According to court documents Carlos Caro was a member of the Texas Syndicate prison gang and guards would find his cellmate dead in his cell with a towel tied around his throat. Carlos Caro was the only other person in the cell. Carlos Caro is still on Federal Death Row as of 2021

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Carlos Caro 2021 Information

Register Number: 37786-079
Age:	54
Race:	White
Sex:	Male
Located at: Terre Haute USP
Release Date: DEATH SENT

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At about 6:40 p.m. on December 17, 2003, a prison guard discovered inmate Roberto Sandoval strangled to death inside his cell in the Special Housing Unit (the “SHU”) at United States Penitentiary Lee (“USP Lee”) in Jonesville, Virginia. He lay dead with a towel knotted around his neck. His cellmate Caro had been the only other person inside the locked cell. Caro later explained, “[Sandoval] called me mother fucker, that whore, that’s why I fucked him up.” J.A. 781.

Caro comes from a poor neighborhood in Falfurrias, Texas, where he lived with his siblings and an abusive, alcoholic father. While still young, Caro began helping his uncles transport illegal drugs into the United States. He was later convicted of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute in April 1988, conspiracy to possess over one hundred kilograms of marijuana with intent to distribute in January 1994, and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute in November 2001.¹ Following his third conviction, Caro was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment.

In prison, Caro became a leader in the Texas Syndicate, a violent prison gang. In that role, Caro was involved in two violent incidents prior to Sandoval’s murder. In the summer of 2002 at Federal Correctional Institute Oakdale (“FCI Oakdale”), a prison official asked Caro to maintain the peace because members of another gang were scheduled to arrive. Caro responded that “the Texas Syndicate were going to do what they had to do.” J.A. 908. Soon after, Caro and fellow Texas Syndicate members violently attacked the new arrivals. Taking responsibility, Caro commented: “I don’t give a fuck if they send me to the United States Penitentiary. My brothers follow orders. They know what they’re getting into. It doesn’t even matter if we’re prosecuted. I have 30 years to do. I certainly don’t care about myself.” J.A. 911.

Following the FCI Oakdale incident, the Bureau of Prisons (the “BOP”) transferred Caro to USP Lee, a more secure facility. There, in August 2003, Caro and another inmate violently attacked fellow Texas Syndicate member Ricardo Benavidez. Using “shanks,” i.e., homemade knives, they stabbed Benavidez twenty-nine times. Five other Texas Syndicate members stood nearby with identical shanks.² In November 2003, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit homicide, Caro was sentenced to another twenty-seven years imprisonment. He was then transferred to the SHU at USP Lee.

Sandoval’s murder occurred only weeks later. Sandoval was placed in Caro’s cell at around 9:00 p.m. on December 16, 2003. The next day, Sandoval and Caro were served breakfast in their cell at 6:10 a.m. They later took one hour of recreation outside and were last observed by prison staff at 6:17 p.m.³ Soon after, inmate Sean Bullock, whose cell faced Caro’s, noticed Caro standing behind Sandoval and apparently choking him. Bullock watched them fall to the ground and assumed they were tussling. At about 6:40 p.m., a prison guard came to deliver mail. Caro yelled to him several times, “Come get this piece of shit out of here,” and pointed at Sandoval lying by the door. J.A. 676. Peering inside the cell, the guard observed Sandoval lying motionless with blood on him and a towel knotted around his neck. Blood was also splattered against the wall.

Other guards quickly arrived and handcuffed Caro. When asked whether Sandoval was still breathing, Caro responded: “No. At this time he’s stinking up the room, get him out.” J.A. 684. Caro later received Miranda warnings and was interviewed. He denied that Sandoval’s murder had any connection to the Texas Syndicate. Instead, Caro explained that he had eaten Sandoval’s breakfast that morning; that Sandoval had awakened, cursed him, and threatened to eat Caro’s breakfast the next morning; and that Caro, using a towel tied with one overhand knot, had later strangled Sandoval for four or five minutes until he stopped breathing.

The next day Caro taunted a prison guard, grinning and calling out, “When [are] you ․ going [to] assign [me] a new cellie?” J.A. 601. Several days later, again grinning, Caro requested fellow inmate Ortiz for his next “cellie.” J.A. 680.

Caro later mentioned Sandoval in two telephone conversations and a letter. The letter stated, “I killed a guy two weeks ago ․ [f]or being a fool.” J.A. 790. Caro told his wife, laughing, “[Sandoval] called me a mother fucker.” J.A. 782. Caro also assured her, “But I’m all right.” J.A. 783. Finally, Caro told another Texas Syndicate member Roel Rivas, “I also have a death,” and explained, “It’s because they gave me a cell mate and he disrespected me, so I took him down.” J.A. 785. When Rivas proposed claiming self-defense, Caro said, “That is what I’m going to do․ That is what I’m going for.” J.A. 786-87.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-4th-circuit/1522871.html

Anthony Battle Federal Death Row

Anthony Battle was a prisoner at the Atlanta Federal Prison when he murdered a prison guard. According to court documents Anthony Battle who at the time was serving a life sentence for the murder of his wife became upset with the prison guard. Anthony would grab a ball peen hammer from a prison maintenance worker and would strike the guard several times in the head causing his death. Anthony Battle would be convicted and sent to Federal Death Row

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In 1987, Anthony Battle entered the Marine base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and sexually assaulted and murdered his wife, a serving Marine. He was convicted of first-degree felony murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1111(a), aggravated sexual abuse in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2241(a), and second-degree murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1111. He was sentenced to life in prison.

Anthony Battle was moved around some and eventually transferred to the United States Penitentiary-Atlanta (“USP-A”) in 1993. On 21 December 1994, a correctional officer at USP-A, D’Antonio Washington, was found lying on the floor in Cellhouse C with blood spurting out of his head. When prison employees rushed to the scene, they found Battle standing next to a nearby vending machine. His clothing was splattered with blood. A hammer with fresh blood, which was later determined to be Officer Washington’s blood, was found behind the vending machine. Richard Boone, an inmate allowed to carry tools, had loaned the hammer to Anthony Battle to fix something in his cell. (Medical examiners later testified that Officer Washington was felled by three great blows to the head with a hammer.)

On the day of Washington’s death, Anthony Battle made an incriminating statement, which was eventually suppressed; but he later confessed again to a correctional officer. Later, federal agents interrogated Battle; and he told them he was “frustrated” at USP-A and that he was “tired of being bossed around.” Battle said that he took the hammer and decided to attack the first correctional officer he saw. Battle was charged with Officer Washington’s murder.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-11th-circuit/1211786.html