Wilbur Jennings
Wilbur Jennings, 73, died at a hospital on February 10, 2014, while held at the Sacramento County Main Jail, according to KCRA. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said his terminal illness caused his death and that it did not appear suspicious, and said it would conduct an inmate-death investigation under department procedures and state law. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation separately lists a Wilbur Lee Jennings as dying of natural causes on February 11, 2014, while held on death row in state custody. The sources give different dates and places of death and do not reconcile them.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said he died of natural causes, and the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department said his terminal illness caused the death and did not appear suspicious.
Reported by: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the agency that held him); Sacramento County Sheriff's Department (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.