San Quentin Death Row inmate wins ruling, then hangs himself

San Quentin State Prison - George Smithey, a 70-year-old inmate who was sentenced to death in 1989 for murdering a woman after breaking into her home in Calaveras County hanged himself in his cell at San Quentin State Prison over the weekend, less than a week after a judge commuted his sentence to life without parole because of mental retardation. ---...More