A 76-year-old Stockton man died Friday while incarcerated at California State Prison, Sacramento, 45 years after he was sentenced to death for killing his pregnant wife and their unborn child.
Medical staff pronounced Jerry Thomas Bunyard dead at 4:44 p.m. Friday at an outside medical facility, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Monday afternoon in a news release. Bunyard was on death row at California State Prison, Sacramento, the facility known as New Folsom.
CDCR officials said the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office would determine Bunyard’s official cause of death. CDCR did not identify the medical facility or say why Bunyard had been taken there, and did not respond to a question about his death before their announcement on Monday morning…