NEW BOSTON, Texas-A Bowie County jury deliberated just over an hour Wednesday morning before sentencing Texas prison inmate Billy Joel Tracy to death. Tracy, 39, will face the ultimate punishment ...

NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) - A Northeast Texas jury has sent a prison inmate to death row for the 2015 beating death of a corrections officer who was escorting him to a cell. The same Bowie County jury ...

Billy Joel Tracy was found guilty last month in the death of Officer Timothy Davison. Davison's family embraced their friends and the prosecution team outside the courtroom just after the ...

State will seek death penalty against Billy Joel Tracy, accused of beating local guard to death. January 8, 2016 at 9:05 p.m. | Updated January 8, 2016 at 10:37 p.m.

Billy Joel Tracy in an undated book-in photo. Prison records show Tracy has eight convictions dating to 1995, at least three of which are for assaulting a public servant.

Billy Joel Tracy was convicted Friday in New Boston. The attack happened July 15, 2015, as Corrections Officer Timothy Davison was escorting Tracy from a dayroom back to his cell at the Telford ...

EAST TEXAS (KSLA) - A jury took less than an hour to return their verdict in the trial of Billy Joel Tracy. CLICK HERE to watch KSLA News 12 Now at 4 live or watch on the KSLA News 12 app. Tracy was ...

The prison agency has identified the inmate involved as 37-year-old Billy Joel Tracy. He is serving a life sentence for robbery and assault out of Rockwall County.