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Monday, December 21, 2020

Inmate dies of natural causes after 37 years on death row

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP/CBS13) — A California inmate condemned to death nearly four decades ago for killing a police officer died Friday of natural causes at age 71, prison officials said. 

James Odle died at an outside hospital 37 years after he was sent to the nation’s largest death row at San Quentin State Prison, which has 709 condemned inmates.