Another San Quentin inmate is found dead in his Death Row cell – San Francisco Chronicle

A San Quentin Articulate Penal complex inmate on Loss of life Row, convicted in the frigid-case killing of an 8-300 and sixty five days-broken-down Bay Intention girl, has died, and officials are investigating whether or no longer he was contaminated with the coronavirus.

Joseph S. Cordova, 75, was stumbled on unresponsive in his single cell at 4: 08 p.m. Wednesday, officials said. He was pronounced ineffective at 4: 22 p.m. after attempts to revive him.

Cordova had been on Loss of life Row since 2007, after he was convicted in the 1979 rape and strangulation waste of 8-300 and sixty five days-broken-down Cannie Bullock, who was attacked in her San Pablo dwelling while her mother was out ingesting with some company. In 2002, DNA tied Cordova, who was then in a Colorado jail for child molestation, to the prolonged-unsolved Bullock case.

His loss of life is the 2nd of a Loss of life Row inmate in eight days at a penal complex that has been ravaged by the coronavirus. Better than 1,100 inmates possess turn into contaminated since officials transferred unwell inmates into the jail a month previously.

On June 24, Richard Stitely, 71, was stumbled on unresponsive in his cell and pronounced ineffective. A publish-mortem take a look at obvious he had coronavirus. Stitely was convicted in Los Angeles County for the rape and waste of 47-300 and sixty five days-broken-down Carol Unger and had been on Loss of life Row since 1992.

Cordova’s loss of life can be investigated by the Marin County coroner.

Suzanne Espinosa Solis is a San Francisco Narrative workers author. Email: sespinosa@sfchronicle.com