A drabsdømt man is accused of having killed and partially dismembered another drabsdømt man, with whom he shared the cell with in prison in California in the UNITED states.

the Authorities refers to the killing, which happened in march, which is unheard of sadistic.

It is not known how much of the parteringen that took place while the victim – the 44-year-old Luis Romero – was still alive.

But deputy Phil Esbenshade, writes in an email that “we believe that the victim was conscious at least part of the time”.

Esbenshade adds, that it is the most “cruel” drabssag he has seen. Among other things, the victim got his head cut off.

the 31-year-old Jaime Osuna refused guilty of manslaughter and other charges, including torture, at the first court hearing Thursday in Los Angeles.

According to the charges of torture had Osuna intention to inflict its victim “extreme pain and suffering”.

Fængselsmyndigheden in California have opened an internal investigation on the killing, which took place in the night. The authority will not say how the inmates are being watched on the night.

the prison guards found Romero dead in his cell on the morning of the 9. march in the prison, which has over 3300 inmates. Romero died as a result of the loss of blood from “several” deep puncture wounds, according to a forensic report.

Jaime Osuna got in 2017, a penalty of life imprisonment for having killed a woman at a motel in Bakersfield. He is transferred to a prison for inmates with mental disorders.

/ritzau/AP