An inmate on death row at San Quentin State Prison has been found dead in his cell.
Prison officials said guards found 74-year-old Richard Benson unresponsive around 5:30 a.m. on Sunday. Officials with the Marin County Sheriff’s Office Coroner Division will investigate are working to determine the cause of death but said foul play is not suspected.
Benson did not have a cellmate.
Benson was sentenced to death in 1987 for murdering a woman and her three children in San Luis Obispo County.
