USA - Arizona. A jury sentenced Jasper Phillip Rushing to death

A Maricopa County jury sentenced Jasper Phillip Rushing, 45, White, to death. Rushing was convicted of murder in the September 10, 2010 death of Shannon Palmer, 40, White, while they shared a cell at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Lewis in Buckeye. Palmer, a mentally ill man sentenced to three years in prison for climbing a utility tower during a thunderstorm. Rushing, who told a PhoenixNew Times reporter that he slit Palmer's throat and castrated him because Palmer wouldn't stop talking. Rushing already was serving a 28-year prison sentence for the 2001 murder of his stepfather.