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(Left to right, top to bottom) John Beames, 67, Jeffrey J. Hawkins, 64, Troy A. Ashmus, 58, David Reed, 60, Manuel Alvarez, 59, Scott Erskine, 57, Dewayne Carey, Richard E. Stitely, 71
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More than a dozen inmates have died at California’s San Quentin State Prison — including eight on death row — since June from COVID-19, the state’s corrections department said this week.
Convicted murderer John Beames, 67, was the latest inmate to die from complications due to the coronavirus, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a release Wednesday.
Beames, who died Tuesday, had been on death row since November 1995 after being found guilty of killing a 15-month-old child, according to CNN.
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