Jury sentences Texas inmate to die for death of Huntsville prison guard during 2007 escape

By AP
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Texas inmate to die for prison guard’s death

CENTERVILLE, Texas — A Texas prison inmate convicted of killing a corrections officer during a September 2007 escape is headed to death row.

A jury decided Tuesday that 39-year-old Jerry Martin should die for the death of 59-year-old guard Susan Canfield of New Waverly.

Canfield was killed when Martin and John Ray Falk broke away from a work detail outside a Huntsville prison, stole a truck and rammed into Canfield while she was on horseback.

The fugitives were caught within hours.

Martin already had been serving 50-year sentence for attempted murder.

Falk is awaiting trial on similar charges related to the guard’s death. He’d been serving life for a 1986 murder.

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