In Beaumont, a federal prisoner serving a life sentence...

In Beaumont, a federal prisoner serving a life sentence was sentenced to death for the Jan. 5, 2001 slaying of another inmate. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, 33, was convicted July 8 of stomping fellow inmate Luther Plant to death at the federal prison in Beaumont, Texas. Video recorded by a prison guard showed Agofsky, who is adept at martial arts, stomping on Plant's head and neck inside of a prison exercise cage. A federal jury in Beaumont took 75 minutes to convict Agofsky. Agofsky is serving a life sentence in the 1989 murder of Dan Short, Ark. Agofsky and his older brother, Joseph, were convicted of robbing the State Bank of Noel in Noel, Mo., where Short was president. The older Agofsky is also serving a life sentence.