Texarkana Gazette

Inmate pleads guilty to killing fellow prisoner

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LITTLE ROCK—An Arkansas inmate has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a fellow prisoner in 2015 and has been sentenced to an additional 20 years in prison.

Third Judicial District Prosecutin­g Attorney Henry Boyce’s office announced Tuesday that 35-year-old Franklin J. Junior pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Joe Kory Harter. Boyce’s office says Junior’s plea on Monday came moments before a Jackson County jury was to be seated in his trial.

Harter was stabbed with a homemade weapon at the Arkansas Department of Correction Grimes Unit in Newport on June 15, 2015.

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