A man on California's death row has died while incarcerated at a Sacramento-area prison, state officials said on Thursday.

Armando Macias was condemned to death in 2011 following his conviction for first-degree murder in a murder-for-hire plot.

Scott Dozier, a death row inmate in Nevada, was found dead in his cell Saturday of an apparent suicide, state department of corrections officials said. Dozier, 48, was hanging from a bed sheet tied to ...