Federal Inmate Gets Life Sentence for Murdering Prisoner
Scott Lawrence
February 27, 2008 - 2:42PM

A federal inmate has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a prisoner at the United States Penitentiary in Beaumont.

United States Attorney John Ratcliffe announced that Ellis Joseph Moser, 34, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Thad Heartfield. The sentencing hearing came about two weeks after Mosher was convicted of capital murder following an eight day trial. Jurors deliberated less than an hour before finding Mosher guilty on February 7, 2008.
According to information presented in court, on September 10, 1998, Bureau of Prison officials working in the USP-Beaumont, witnessed Mosher chase 46-year-old Stanley Moseley and stab him multiple times with a hand-made weapon, or shank. Moseley was in prison for bank robbery at the time of his death. Mosher had been convicted of kidnapping and firearms violations.

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Yup; that's my Ellis. It's heartbreaking. He may be a lying, cheating con-artist, but I know, had he been given a second chance, he would have done a lot of good on the outside. Lived a better life, ya know? I wanted that for him. Possibly more so than my own happiness.

I'm so sorry DesertStorm.

(((HUGS)))

Sorry to hear that too, DesertStorm. That's the problem with U.S. prisons - they certainly don't do much to improve people's outlook or behavior and then things happen in there that we can never understand. I have a friend in prison who's turned his 18 year sentence into a much longer one and it's just so discouraging to see that happen. Z.

I just read this and it leaves me wondering, if the CO's all watched this happen, why did they not do something to stop this and maybe prevent Ellis from serving Life and Stanley from dying?