Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·NOVEMBER 2, 2004

Deon Tumblin, 27, was found hanging by a sheet in his...

Deon Tumblin, 27, was found hanging by a sheet in his death row cell in an apparent suicide, on Tuesday evening at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice outside Livingston, about 75 miles northeast of Houston

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Deon Tumblin, 27, was found hanging by a sheet in his death row cell in an apparent suicide, on Tuesday evening at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice outside Livingston, about 75 miles northeast of Houston. He had been condemned for strangling a woman, Evelyn Reed, 75, at her home in January 2000, then taking her car. Tumblin, arrived on death row in February 2001, and did not have an execution date.
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  • (Sources: Associated Press)