Inmate Avoids Death Penalty in “Whitey” Killing – IOTW Report

Inmate Avoids Death Penalty in “Whitey” Killing

AP

A former Mafia hitman already serving life in prison was sentenced to 25 years Friday in the 2018 fatal prison bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger.

Prosecutors said Fotios “Freddy” Geas used a lock attached to a belt to repeatedly hit the 89-year-old Bulger in the head hours after he arrived at the troubled U.S. Penitentiary, Hazelton, from another lockup in Florida in October 2018. Defense attorneys disputed that characterization Friday, saying Geas hit Bulger with his fist.

The Justice Department said last year that it would not seek the death penalty against Geas in Bulger’s killing. More

7 Comments on Inmate Avoids Death Penalty in “Whitey” Killing

  1. Life in prison = life in prison +25 years. So he killed a scum bag and is not suffering an more than before.
    The key takeaway is – prison is hell. It should be that way so it is a deterrent to criminal behavior.

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  2. Whitey was killed because he was fixing to relieve his conscience on crimes he was involved with. His brother Michael, president of the Massachusetts senate for many years, and Joe Biden, senator from another northeast state, principal among others, would be exposed in this unburdening and that could not be allowed to happen. Thus the sudden unexplained transfer to another prison and the time Bulger, in a wheelchair, was left unsupervised, time that allowed the fellow to crush his skull with the lock.

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