G-d Bless Our Hero, Earl Krugel

Earl Krugel was murdered in Arizona prison in 2005.
 Who murdered him? What was the sentence?

1 Answer

I read a few articles on his killing but it never mentioned who killed him,
it just said another inmate did it. It says Earl was going to blow up a mosque.
He shouldn't have been put in prison he should have been given a medal.

Michael:

 David Frank Jennings, a known skinhead  was the murderer.

Krugel was martyred  on November 4, 2005, as he started

 his 20-year sentence in a medium-security federal prison 

in Phoenix but was promptly bludgeoned to death.

The apparent assailant, 30-year-old Jennings, 
was an alleged member of the Aryan Brotherhood,
 a feared prison gang. According to the
 Southern Poverty Law Center, 
its members comprise less than one-tenth 
of 1 percent of the nation’s prison population
 but commit 18 percent of all prison murders. 
The Brotherhood is primarily a crime syndicate 
that runs prison drug trafficking and prison 
prostitution, but it carries a nasty racist overlay.

Attorneys for Lola Krugel, the spirited and elfin woman 
who is Earl’s widow, allege that the U.S. government 
is culpable for her husband’s death.
 She did not want to be quoted, but her suit charges 
that prison officials failed to classify Jennings as an 
Aryan Brotherhood member despite his gang tattoos.

But within minutes of the start of the late-July trial, 
as Benjamin Schonbrun, the widow’s attorney, 
questioned former prison employee Thomas Bond 
about Jenning’s tattoos, Judge Wilson
 ordered the court cleared — bending to
 U.S. government attorneys, 
who wanted internal prison procedures, such 
as identifying gang members and gang tattoos, to remain secret.

(The federal government is so obsessed with 
secrecy in this case, that in a hallway of 
the federal building, when Assistant U.S. Attorney David Pinchas was asked by L.A. 
Weekly for his name, he only reluctantly provided it.)

In a statement later, Schonbrun said Wilson acted
 “without a fair hearing to permit anyone to dispute 
the necessity for a secret trial. When a federal judge 
can close an entire trial and exclude our free press, our society suffers.”

Strangely enough, a court order issued by Wilson himself,
 and publicly available, reveals many key prison 
procedures that had been expected to come out at the hearing.
 Moreover, the Aryan Brotherhood tattoos that the 
federal attorneys are so reluctant to discuss in public 
were found by the Weekly, readily accessible, 
on a Web page hosted by the Arizona Department of Corrections.

What is known is that in June 2004, before Jennings was moved
 to the prison in Phoenix, where he allegedly
 murdered Krugel, Kimberly L. Beakey, the Bureau of Prison’s 
“designator of inmates” for the Western region, 
initially qualified Jennings as a “high-security inmate” —
 but then “flexed down” Jennings to medium security
 so he could participate in a drug-abuse rehab program that is
 unavailable in maximum-security prisons.

Bureau of Prison documents show that Jennings 
had described himself as a member of the Aryan Brotherhood a
nd wore its tattoo — so Beakey specifically noted that
 further investigation of Jennings was required upon his arrival in Phoenix.

If Jennings was in the Aryan Brotherhood, 

federal rules required that he be committed t

o maximum security. At issue at last month’s trial 

was whether Bond and another prison officer who

 saw Jennings upon his arrival in Phoenix did enough

 research before allowing Jennings into the general 

population, and into the yard where he is believed

 to have murdered Earl krugel.

Jennings plead guilty eventually and was sentenced to
 35 years in Federal Prison.