Death Row Inmate Is Fatally Stabbed
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A fellow death row inmate killed Donald Leroy Evans, who once confessed to dozens of murders and led police in several states on fruitless searches for bodies, authorities said. Evans, 41, was stabbed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman while being led back to his cell after a shower, a prison spokesman said. The Texas drifter was sentenced to death in 1993.
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