Extracted from The Sunday Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Sunday, November 9, 1975

Angola Prisoner Stabbed to Death

ANGOLA -- A Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate was stabbed to death about 1 p.m. Saturday in a prison dormitory.

Deputy Warden Lloyd Hoyle Jr. identified him as Haskell Whittington, 28, who was serving time for simple robbery from Jefferson Parish.

Hoyle said someone stabbed Whittington once, apparently after a disagreement over a debt. He said the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office and coroner were investigating and had called in some inmates for questioning.

Whittington died at the prison hospital.