In 1981, a black inmate killed two white prison officials at a Texas prison farm.
One of the slain men was the prison’s warden. The other was the supervisor of its farm operations.
The farm boss was shot to death. The warden was drowned in a creek not far away.
The inmate claimed it was self-defense. And 35 of 36 Texas jurors believed him.
The story is told in The Trials of Eroy Brown: The Case that Shook the Texas Prison System, the forthcoming book by Houston journalist Michael Berryhill.
