{"id":377289,"date":"2026-10-19T21:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377289\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T21:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:56:14","slug":"new-york-inmate-sentenced-to-life-for-killing-cellmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377289\/","title":{"rendered":"New York inmate sentenced to life for killing cellmate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Christian<\/a>MALONE, N.Y. \u2014<\/p>\n

Andrew Hernandez, a New York inmate already serving time for killing his mother, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering his cellmate at Upstate Correctional Facility in Malone. <\/p>\n

Hernandez pleaded guilty to first-degree murder after police said he used his shoelaces to kill Michael Campbell. <\/p>\n

Campbell was found dead in their shared cell on April 6. According to his mother, Campbell had been serving a 20-year-to-life sentence for stealing a van, while Hernandez was incarcerated for shooting his mother in the back of the head with a rifle in 2001. Hernandez was 18 years old when he was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the crime. <\/p>\n

On Monday, Hernandez received a life sentence without the possibility of parole. <\/p>\n

In court, Campbell\u2019s mother and sister delivered emotional testimony, carrying his ashes while addressing the judge. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is my son Michael. All he wanted was to come home,\u201d said Joan Scotchmer, Campbell\u2019s mother. <\/p>\n

Hernandez chose not to make a statement in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MALONE, N.Y. \u2014 Andrew Hernandez, a New York inmate already serving time for killing his mother, has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78122,78128,2803,303,138762,14687,35198,3443,8638,138760,1638,26134,259,9,11,138761,10,4437,8098,3209,75033,42208,3442],"class_list":["post-377289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-andrew-hernandez","tag-cellmate","tag-court","tag-crime","tag-emotional-testimony","tag-inmate","tag-killed","tag-life","tag-malone","tag-michael-campbell","tag-monday","tag-mother","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-inmate","tag-new-york-news","tag-parole","tag-prison","tag-sentencing","tag-sister","tag-upstate-correctional-facility","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}