FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office shows Mikel Brady. The North Carolina inmate was found guilty Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, of murdering four prison workers during a failed escape attempt two years ago. (Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File)
MANTEO, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina inmate convicted of murdering four prison workers during a failed escape attempt two years ago has been sentenced to death.
The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Virginia, reports that jurors on Monday settled on execution as the appropriate penalty for 30-year-old Mikel Brady for the deadliest attempted prison breakout in state history.
Brady was the first of four inmates tried on charges of killing two prison guards, a maintenance worker and a sewing plant manager on Oct. 12, 2017, at Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City. Brady was already serving time for attempted murder for shooting a North Carolina state trooper in 2013.
Brady joins more than 140 people on North Carolina’s death row. The state has had no executions since 2006.
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