Floyd Maestas (image provided by the Utah Dept. of Corrections)
SALT LAKE CITY — Death row inmate Floyd Eugene Maestas has died, the Utah Department of Corrections announced Sunday.
Maestas, 63, who has been awaiting execution for the 2004 murder of 72-year-old Donna Bott, died Sunday of natural causes. Bott was murdered in a robbery.
Maestas was convicted in 2008 and has been awaiting execution ever since. With his passing, there are now eight men on Utah’s death row.
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