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| Death row inmate dies in cell at San Quentin |
| By latimes.com - Maura Dolan |
| Published: 03/14/2012 |
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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. The prosecution argued that Lawley had hired Brian Seabourn, another former inmate, to kill Stewart after Stewart robbed and beat Lawley at his Modesto cabin. Two criminalists said the bullet that killed the victim matched a revolver found in Lawley's home, a .357-caliber Ruger. Read More. |
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