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California man awaiting execution for multiple murders dies Follow Us Question of the Day This June 12, 2007 photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows condemned inmate Louis Peoples. Peoples who was sentenced to death for multiple murders has died on the nation’s largest death row, California officials said Wednesday, ... more > By - Associated Press - Wednesday, January 27, 2021 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man sentenced to death for mult...

The Record A Stockton man sentenced to death for multiple murders during a two-week killing spree has died from "asphyxia ... due to hanging" on the nation's largest death row, California officials said Wednesday. Louis Peoples, 58, was pronounced dead after he was found unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin State Prison north of San Francisco early Sunday, the state corrections department said.  His cause of death was "asphyxia secondary due to hanging," said Marin County Coroner's Office spokeswoman Annette Letsche, though the full death report had not yet been completed. He was sentence...