Arkansas death row inmate dies in prison of unknown causes

Arkansas decease enactment inmate Latavious Johnson died of chartless causes astatine the Varner SuperMax situation connected Friday afternoon, according to the state’s section of corrections

Arkansas decease enactment inmate Latavious Johnson died of chartless causes astatine the Varner SuperMax situation connected Friday afternoon, according to the state’s section of corrections. He was successful his 40s.

The Arkansas Department of Corrections did not supply Johnson’s origin of decease and declined to remark further.

Johnson had received a beingness condemnation for the execution of his father, Johnnie Johnson, successful 2000.

Johnson was sentenced to decease for the 2012 execution of a situation guard, Barbara Ester. Johnson had fatally stabbed Ester with a shank 3 times and punctured her heart, tribunal records show. She had been investigating whether helium had obtained a brace of unauthorized gym shoes successful the prison.

Johnson expressed remorse for his actions successful a connection his lawyers provided to police, tribunal records show.

“I should person conscionable gave the shoes up, conscionable said to hellhole with it, asked idiosyncratic to nonstop maine immoderate wealth and bid maine immoderate more,” Johnson told a constabulary researcher successful an interrogation aft the killing, according to tribunal records. “It’s excessively precocious for each that now.”

A corrections installation successful Pine Bluff, Arkansas is named aft Ester.

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