Michael F. Thornton
Michael F. Thornton, 68, died on October 14, 2024, at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, a state prison where he was held. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said a registered nurse in the hospice unit pronounced him dead at 8:35 p.m. and that the initial cause was natural. The department's records list him among condemned people who have died in its custody since 1978. He had been in the department's custody since his transfer from Riverside County in 2006.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says he died of natural causes, with a registered nurse in the hospice unit determining the initial cause.
Reported by: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.