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| Death Row inmates will get to share a cell |
| By The Idaho Statesman |
| Published: 12/08/2003 |
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The Department of Correction is using a new state law to give two Idaho Death Row inmates a shared cell. Department spokeswoman Teresa Jones said last Monday that the agency has moved Randy McKinney and Mark Lankford into the same cell at the state´s maximum security prison. The Legislature approved a measure last winter that lets prison officials move Death Row inmates into the general population at the discretion of the agency. McKinney has been on Death Row for the 1983 shooting death of Robert Bishop in Arco. Lankford got the death sentence in the 1984 beating deaths of Robert and Cheryl Bravence in Idaho County. Jones said the pair´s movements are still restricted. The inmates have no access to outside areas, and if a death warrant is issued, the inmates will again be segregated from the rest of the prison population. A department team recommended that the two inmates be moved. Department of Correction Director Tom Beauclair approved the recommendation. |
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