White supremacist Pete Van Winkle strangled inmate Robert Cotton as seen on a surveillance tape at in Phoenix at 4th Avenue jail. Van Winkle testified that it was self-defense because Cotton had made the first hit but the judge still found him guilty. Van Winkle is sentenced to death on Tuesday. Van Winkle supposedly killed Cotton for snitching on a member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. Cotton was in jail for being alleged that he stole a vehicle and Van Winkle attempted to kill a man in 2008. Before trial of
Cottons murder another jury found he attempted second degree murder and misconduct with weapons.
-Boing 123
17 November 2009
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