A mentally ill inmate on California's death row who has been trying to overturn his conviction has died of natural causes, 23 years after his conviction, state authorities said.
Dennis Lawley, 69, was found unresponsive in his single cell at San Quentin State Prison and pronounced dead at 4:20 p.m. Sunday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.
Lawley's case sparked headlines in 2008 when a search of a Modesto field uncovered a handgun that corroborated potentially exonerating evidence.
Lawley was convicted of the 1989 contract killing of Kenneth Lawton Stewart, a convicted felon who had been robbing drug dealers.
Source: Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2012
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