Man convicted second time in three months

BELTON, TEXAS - A 21-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for the second time in three months after being convicted of fatally beating a former college student with a hammer. <br> <br> Howard Kenneth Dermody the second received a life term in January after being found guilty of capital murder in the death of Michael Aaron Reynolds of Snellville, Georgia. <br> <br> Dermody was found guilty Wednesday of capital murder for the death of Barney Jacob Henry of Athens, Texas. <br> <br> State District Judge Joe Carroll ordered that the sentences run consecutively. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty. <br> <br> ``We wanted to ensure that he never got out of the penitentiary,&#39;&#39; prosecutor Paul McWilliams said. <br> <br> Police said 20-year-old Henry and 21-year-old Reynolds were fatally beaten with a hammer at a Belton, Texas, house on December 29, 2000. <br> <br> Reynolds&#39; bloodstained car was found January first, 2001, abandoned on a dirt road outside Bruceville-Eddy. Nine days later, officers found Henry&#39;s body in southern Bell County and Reynolds&#39; body in Milam County. <br> <br> Friends said they last saw Reynolds and Henry, who had attended the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, December 29 at the Temple shopping center where they worked.

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