{"id":6670,"date":"2011-05-16T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6670"},"modified":"2011-05-16T14:59:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T18:59:16","slug":"florida-inmate-gets-another-43-years-for-killing-cellmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6670","title":{"rendered":"Florida Inmate Gets Another 43 Years  For Killing Cellmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A central Florida prison inmate has been sentenced to another 43 years for killing his cellmate for whining too much.<\/p>\n<p>A Lake County judge sentenced 23-year-old <strong>Phillip Adams<\/strong> last month. He had previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say <strong>Adams<\/strong> was sharing a cell at Lake Correctional Institution with 43-year-old <strong>Marc Rogers<\/strong> in July 2009 when Adams grew tired of listening to<strong> Rogers<\/strong> complain about his sentence. He was serving 25 years for fatally stabbing a housemate in Boynton Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say <strong>Adams<\/strong> chewed the hem off a bed sheet and used it to strangle <strong>Rogers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If not for the attack on <strong>Rogers<\/strong>,<strong> Adams<\/strong> would have completed his four-year sentence for lewd and lascivious molestation in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A central Florida prison inmate has been sentenced to another 43 years for killing his cellmate for whining too much. A Lake County judge sentenced 23-year-old Phillip Adams last month. He had previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. Authorities say Adams was sharing a cell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}