DRAPER, Utah, Dec. 2, 2018 (Gephardt Daily) — Floyd Eugene Maestas, a death row inmate at the Utah Department of Corrections, has died of natural causes at the Utah State Prison, officials said Sunday.
Maestas, 63, died at the Draper prison sometime Sunday morning, according to a news release from the Utah Department of Corrections. No further details were given about his death.
Maestas committed a capital offense of aggravated murder and a first-degree aggravated burglary on Sept. 28, 2004, the news release said. He has been incarcerated at the Utah State Prison on those charges since Feb. 8, 2008, awaiting execution.
He was convicted by a jury of killing Donna Lou Bott, 72, after breaking into her Salt Lake home, and beating, choking, stabbing and then stomping on the woman.
Maestas’ death leaves a total of eight men on Utah’s death row.
Gephardt Daily will have more on this developing story as information is released by officials.
