SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) - Officials say a multiple murderer has died of unknown causes while awaiting execution on California’s death row.
San Quentin State Prison Lt. Sam Robinson said Friday that 69-year-old James David Majors died Thursday at a nearby hospital.
He was sentenced to die in 1991 after a Sacramento County jury convicted him of robbery and first-degree murder in the slayings of three people at a suburban residence. The bodies were found by one victim’s 8-year-old son.
Authorities say Majors and an accomplice, Robert Reese, came to Sacramento from Arizona to buy methamphetamine.
They also stole methamphetamine, money and jewelry.
Reese was fatally shot in Arizona a month after the slayings.
California’s last execution was in 2006. Since 1978, when California reinstated capital punishment, 71 condemned inmates have died from natural causes.
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