A convicted killer from Shasta County who was on death row at San Quentin has died while awaiting execution.
Corrections officials say 67-year-old Raymond Edward Steele was found unresponsive Wednesday night and was pronounced dead from unknown reasons.
Steele has been at San Quentin since July of 1990 after he was convicted of the 1988 stabbing death of Leann Thurman. Steele was also convicted in 1971 of murder and rape.