Former Inmate in Terre Haute Gets Another Life Sentence

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.–A former inmate at the Federal Correctional Facility in Terre Haute has received another life sentence, this time for killing his cellmate at the facility in 2016.

Joshua Mebane, 29, of Maryland was already serving a 45-year sentence for murder in Washington, D.C., when he strangled his cellmate, Michael Tucker, in January 2016, two days after Tucker was moved into the cell.

According to a new release from the Dept. of Justice, Mebane has also gotten several sentences for murder and attempted murder.

In the incident at Terre Haute, Mebane was about to be taken to a medical appointment. When guards called for both men to stand to be handcuffed, neither man came forward. Mebane said, “I killed my cellie.” They found Tucker under a blanket.

He was determined to have been asphyxiated.

Mebane pleaded guilty to the crime last year and received his life sentence this week. His other sentences are for killing a cab driver in D.C., and shooting a woman and her husband while they were on a walk two weeks before that. The husband survived the shooting. Mebane was 17 when those killings happened.