Floyd Maestas, who was sentenced to die for stomping a woman to death during a 2004 robbery in Salt Lake City, instead died of natural causes. He was 63.
The Utah Department of Corrections announced Maestas’ death in a news release Sunday morning. No further details were provided. His passing leaves eight inmates on Utah’s death row. None have an execution date, nor did Maestas.
Maestas beat, choked, stabbed and then stomped on 72-year-old Donna Lou Bott in what prosecutors described as the culmination of a four-decade criminal career that began with a stolen piggy bank and escalated to a pattern of attacking older women.