Justice Is Served: Death row inmate kills self

There's one less person on Pennsylvania's Death Row today.

From a story in The Philadelphia Inquirer that caught my eye today:

Death row inmate kills self

A death-row inmate who killed four people execution-style in 13 days hanged himself Tuesday in his Graterford cell.

Jose Pagan, 42, was given two death sentences in 1992 for the contract slayings of Pablo Padilla Sr., 59, and his son, Pablo Jr., 31 in their Feltonville home.

Pagan had also been convicted of two counts of second-degree murder in the Dec. 1990 shooting deaths of Louis Bermudez, 20, and Ivelisse Gonzales, 21, inside Bermudez's Kensington apartment.

Pagan had been jailed at Graterford since July 2005, said Jennifer Daneker, spokeswoman for the State Correctional Institution at Graterford.

On Tuesday, a corrections officer making morning security rounds found Pagan unresponsive in his cell about 8 a.m. Other officers attempted to revive him until medical personnel arrived. Pagan was pronounced dead at the prison's dispensary about 8:20 a.m., Daneker said.

Read the full story at the newspaper's Web site.