PINE BLUFF -
The Jefferson County justice system sought the death penalty Monday in a case of an inmate, for killing a fellow prisoner.
Charles Moorman was already serving life without parole before being convicted of killing another in the Tucker Unit.
This wasn't Moorman's first time taking another person's life.
Moorman was sent to prison to serve five consecutive life sentences without parole for five murders
Three of those convictions were capital murder.
Moorman took the stand in his own defense of the stature of his life since March of 1981, when he entered the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
"If a person is going to survive in prison for a long period of time he will not survive if he is not willing to emulate a lion and a fox," Moorman said during questioning.
His most recent murder happened in the Tucker Unit laundry room in 2010, where he stabbed another prisoner to death.
"I felt like since the beginning this was a case which we had to put the death penalty issue before a jury because he had killed five other people in the past," said prosecuting attorney Kyle Hunter.
Moorman even admitted to his criminal past from decades ago while on the stand.
"Just like they got killed I could've gotten killed."
Following testimony from an investigator, inmate and Moorman himself, it was time for the jury's sentence decision.
"The jury sentences you to life in prison without parole," read the judge.
"Well in this case there's no question we were seeking the death penalty. We thought it was appropriate under the circumstances," Hunter added.
"In our system the jury decides those issues, and we gave them all the evidence and it went pretty smoothly as far as the evidence was concerned. They felt like that it didn't justify to take his life."
It only took the jury 12 minutes to rule Moorman guilty of capital murder in the killing of inmate Eddie Smith Jr. on Friday.
