A 28-year-old Alabama inmate has been sentenced in the 2017 fatal stabbing of another inmate in the Bibb County Correctional Facility.
Bibb County Judge Collins Pettaway Jr. on Wednesday sentenced Roderick Delaune to 40 years in prison. Delaune in August 2021 was convicted of murder in the death of 33-year-old Cedric Jerome Robinson.
His co-defendant, 41-year-old Dominique Covin, pleaded guilty last year and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
“These killers ambushed the victim and stabbed him to death,’’ District Attorney Michael Jackson said. “They will now have the rest of their lives in prison to think about it.”
Delaune was serving a 10-year sentence for robbery at the time of the killing. Covin was serving a 20-year sentence for theft and robbery when Robinson was killed.
The assault happened about 8:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, at the Bibb County Correctional Facility in Brent. Authorities at the time said Robinson was attacked by a group of inmates inside one of the facility dorms. He was taken to the Bibb Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 8:42 a.m.
A second inmate who also treated for stab wounds, but his injuries were reported as non-life-threatening.
Surveillance video inside the dorm showed a group of inmates attacking Robinson and the second inmate. Makeshift weapons used in the stabbings were recovered.
Initially four inmates were named as suspects, but investigators determined the other two were actually trying to stop the attack.
Robinson was serving a six-year sentence for credit card fraud and criminal possession of a forged instrument out of Mobile County.
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