A convicted killer received another life sentence in the May 2020 strangulation death of a man assigned to a room with him at Augusta State Medical Prison.
Daniel Luke Ferguson, 32, was sentenced to life in prison by Columbia County Superior Court Judge J. Wade Padgett on Jan. 9 after pleading guilty to murder. He retains the possibility of parole after serving 30 more years.
Ferguson was charged with killing Eddie Gosier, 39, an inmate who was serving a 20-year Brooks County sentence for child molestation. Assistant District Attorney Amber Brantley told the court last month staff moved Gosier in with Ferguson that day.
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Ferguson has been in custody since he was 16 years old in 2008 when he killed a 94-year-old neighbor in Walton County, according to previous reports. He was serving a life sentence when in 2013 he was accused of killing Damion MacClain, then a fellow inmate at Hays State Prison.
Assistant District Attorney Natalie Paine notified the court late last month of her intent to seek recidivist punishment for Ferguson of life without parole.
The close-security prison in Grovetown provides some medical and mental health treatment to convicted felons from around the state.
Ferguson was one of five former inmates at the prison facing charges of murdering fellow inmates there.
Dennis Melez Jr. was indicted last month for killing Raphael Milligan. Gevin Prince is charged in the February 2022 death of William Bodge. Demarvin Bennett is under indictment for murder in the July 2021 death of Ali Tanner. Deontae Holsey was indicted in the January 2021 stabbing death of Terry Lee Bennett.
