An inmate on Califoria’s death row died of unknown causes Saturday morning, after being found unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin State Prison, officials said Monday.
Officials began lifesaving procedures on 35-year-old Miguel Angel Magallon just after finding him at 6:17 a.m. He was pronounced dead 32 minutes later.
Coroners will conduct an autopsy to determine his cause of death.
Magallon was sentenced to death in Los Angeles County on Oct. 15, 2009, for the 2004 murder of Capt. Michael Sparkes, Sr., of the now-defunct Los Angeles County Office of Public Safety.
Magallon is the second California condemned inmate to die this year.
Ronald Lee Bell, 69, died of apparent natural causes at the state prison in Corcoran on March 8, officials said at the time.
The Corcoran facility has a unit that treats inmates with long-term medical needs.
In December, condemned inmates Herminio Serna, 53, and Joseph A. Perez Jr., 47, died within one day of each other.
Though the causes of death are still officially listed as unknown, prison officials investigated the possibility of contraband drugs playing a role.
There are currently 736 individuals on California’s death row.
In March Gov. Gavin Newsom suspended the death penalty in the state, but the order did “not provide for the release of any individual from prison or otherwise alter any current conviction or sentence,” according to the governor’s office.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, Megan Cassidy, April 22, 2019
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