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| Ark. death row inmate admits murder role |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 06/16/2005 |
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A death row inmate has admitted in a letter to a newspaper that he killed a man whose 1998 murder had gone unsolved. Kenneth Williams, 26, told the Pine Bluff Commercial that he wanted to restore a broken relationship with his family and society. "For a long time I was in denial of the things I had done," Williams wrote in the 5 1/2-page letter. "I couldn't believe it myself." Williams will be charged with murder in the death of 36-year-old Jerrell Jenkins, police said Wednesday. "This doesn't happen very often but it does happen where somebody will go and confess after they've been sentenced to death row," said Lt. Bob Rawlinson, a police spokesman. "So I guess it's a good time for reflection and repentance." Authorities are "extremely confident" that Williams committed the crime because of information he had about the crime. In 1998, Williams was convicted of kidnapping and killing a college cheerleader. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Williams escaped in 1999 in a barrel of slop being towed to the prison hog farm, and later killed farmer Cecil Boren, 57, authorities said. He was convicted and sentenced to death in Boren's slaying. Williams wrote in the confession that he shot and killed Jenkins on the same day the cheerleader was shot to death. |
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