ANGOLA, LA (WAFB) — A Baton Rouge man who was convicted earlier this year and sentenced in 2017 to the racially motivated murders of two people in 2017 for the racially motivated murders of two people in an apparently unrelenting Louisiana state penitentiary Found dead by hanging. Angola.
Two sources familiar with the incident told WFB’s Austin Kemkar that the convicted murderer, Kenneth Gleason, was found on Wednesday, 22 September, with a sheet around his neck.
The Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC) later issued a statement confirming that Gleason committed suicide in her prison cell at around 12 a.m. Wednesday.
“While making routine detours, corrections officers found Gleason unresponsive and hanging in his cell. Gleason has been in prison since September 20, 2021. He was in a single-man cell, and according to the COVID-19 protocol for new inmates He was quarantined for 14 days.
The West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Louisiana State Penitentiary have launched an investigation. As such, no further details are available at this time,” DOC Communications Director Ken Pastoric said in a statement.
related: Kenneth Gleason sentenced to life in 2017 murders
Records show that Gleason was transferred from East Baton Rouge Parish Prison to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola on September 20.
a Jury finds Gleason guilty of first-degree murder For the April 27 murders of Donald Smart and Bruce Cofield.
The East Baton Rouge District Attorney’s office did not seek the death penalty in the case, as Smart’s family had reportedly sought a life sentence.
On August 23, 19th Judicial District Judge Beau Higginbotham sentenced Gleason to life in prison for the murders of Smart and Coefield.
During sentencing, Judge Higginbotham said the death penalty would be an “appropriate punishment in this case,” adding Gleason “is nothing that the penal system can do to rehabilitate you.”
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