State Prisoner Charged With Murder
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The state Office of the Prosecuting Attorney
has filed a capital murder charge against an inmate who killed
another inmate when the doors to 78 cells at the Varner Supermax
prison accidentally opened in December.
Prosecuting Attorney Stevan B- Dalrymple filed the charge
against 32-year-old Eric Thrower who was serving a life sentence
for capital murder in the February 1996 shooting of Hot Springs
police officer Chris Anderson.
Dalrymple said the state will seek the death penalty against
Thrower.
Thrower is charged in the death of 51-year-old Jerry L- Ward who
was found lying on cell floor face down and bloodied. Ward suffered
blunt trauma to the head.
When the cell doors opened on December 22, 19 of the 78
prisoners left their cells. Once the doors were shut, prison guards
found Thrower in Ward`s cell.
Ward was serving a total of 20 years for numerous convictions,
including burglary, theft and weapons possession.
