(FOX40.COM) — A man on death row at the California State Prison outside Folsom has died, the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation announced on Monday.
76-year-old Jerry Thomas Bunyard was serving a condemned sentence for first-degree murder. At 4:44 p.m. on July 10, he was pronounced deceased at a medical facility outside the prison. His official cause of death hasn’t been released to the public at this time.
A San Joaquin County convicted Bunyard of paying a childhood friend $50,000 to kill his pregnant wife, Elaine Bunyard. On November 1, 1979, her 7-year-old daughter found her dead in the garage from a shotgun wound, according to court documents…