Stephen M. Redd was pronounced useless after jail employees discovered him unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin Rehabilitation Heart, the place he’s been incarcerated since 1997. He was 78.
His reason behind demise stays underneath investigation.
Redd was sentenced to demise after being convicted in 1997 of first-degree homicide, first-degree theft, second-degree housebreaking, second-degree theft and tried homicide.
The sentence stemmed from a theft Redd dedicated at a Yorba Linda grocery store in 1994.
Throughout the theft, Redd shot and killed the shop’s supervisor, 34-year-old Timothy McVeigh. Redd evaded arrest for eight months earlier than he was arrested in San Francisco.
Redd’s demise sentence has been suspended since 2006, the yr California final executed a prisoner. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a proper moratorium on the demise penalty in 2019.
