TUCSON, Ariz. — A Virginia man was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a fellow inmate at a penitentiary in southern Arizona, according to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office District of Arizona.
Morgan Siler, 40, of Portsmouth, Virginia, was sentenced last week by United States District Judge Scott Rash to two concurrent terms of life in prison after Siler pleaded guilty in September 2024 to murder and conspiracy to murder.
In December of 2015 Siler, along with another inmate and co-conspirator David Hammer who died in 2019, killed another inmate who was also housed at the Tucson facility. Siler and Hammer planned the murder in advance, according to the news release…