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| Texas death row inmate hangs himself |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 11/04/2004 |
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A man on Texas death row became his own executioner when he committed suicide by hanging, prison officials said on Wednesday. Deon Tumblin, 27, was found hanging by a sheet in his cell at the Polunsky Unit prison in Livingston, Texas, on Tuesday, they said. Attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead at the prison infirmary. Tumblin had been on death row since 2001 for the strangulation and beating death of a 75-year-old Texarkana woman, Evelyn Reid. He did not have a scheduled execution date. According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, there have been five death row suicides since the state reinstituted the death penalty in 1974, but this was the first in seven years. Texas, the nation's most active death penalty state, has 447 inmates on death row. It has executed 19 people this year. |
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