{"id":249225,"date":"2026-04-02T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249225\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:50:09","slug":"death-row-inmate-dies-at-sacramento-area-prison-cause-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249225\/","title":{"rendered":"Death row inmate dies at Sacramento-area prison, cause under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man on California&#8217;s death row has died while incarcerated at a Sacramento-area prison, state officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Armando Macias was found unresponsive in his cell around 7 a.m. on Thursday at California State Prison, Sacramento, in Folsom, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/armando-macias-cdcr.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"armando-macias-cdcr.jpg \" height=\"775\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Armando Macias, 50, was declared dead after being found unresponsive in his cell at California State Prison, Sacramento, on April 2, 2026. His cause of death is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>                California Department of Corrections and Rehabiitation<\/p>\n<p>Prison staff began life-saving measures and called for an ambulance. Macias, 50, was pronounced dead at 8:01 a.m. by paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>CDCR officials said the prison&#8217;s Investigative Services Unit is looking into the death, while the Sacramento County Coroner&#8217;s Office will determine the official cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Macias had been on death row since 2011 after being convicted of first-degree murder in Orange County.<\/p>\n<p>California State Prison, Sacramento, which opened in 1986, houses more than 2,200 incarcerated people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man on California&#8217;s death row has died while incarcerated at a Sacramento-area prison, state officials said on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5607,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-249225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}