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   From: yourdime@outlook.com   
      
   Alberto Martinez was beaten to death by Tyler A. Lua, Jorge D. Negrete-   
   Larios and Luis J. Beltran, officials said   
      
   A death row inmate was beaten to death by three other inmates at a   
   prison in Southern California, according to officials.   
      
   Alberto Martinez was killed in the Calipatria State Prison in Imperial   
   County on Thursday, the California Department of Corrections and   
   Rehabilitation said in a news release. His death is being investigated   
   as a homicide.   
      
   Another inmate, Tyler A. Lua, was observed by prison staff striking   
   Martinez and knocking him to the ground before he continued to hit him.   
   Lue eventually stepped away from Martinez, but two other inmates —   
   Jorge D. Negrete-Larios and Luis J. Beltran — began striking Martinez   
   as he laid motionless on the ground.   
      
   Staff then stopped the beating using pepper spray and a baton strike.   
   Two incarcerated-manufactured weapons were found at the scene.   
      
   Martinez sustained injuries consistent with an incarcerated-   
   manufactured weapon. No staff or other inmates were injured.   
      
   Emergency responders were called to the scene and medical staff   
   performed life-saving measures on Martinez. He was transported to the   
   prison's treatment area and was pronounced dead at 2:20 p.m.   
      
   Movement has been limited in the yard where the alleged attack   
   happened.   
      
   Lua, Negrete-Larios and Beltran were moved to restricted housing   
   pending an investigation into the incident.   
      
   Martinez, 46, was most recently received from Orange County on Aug. 17,   
   2010, and placed on condemned status for first-degree murder. He was   
   also sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for attempted   
   first-degree murder with an enhancement for street gang activity and   
   two years for street gang activity, a sentence that was to be served   
   concurrently with the condemned sentence.   
      
   He acted as the getaway driver in a botched plot to kidnap and murder a   
   businessman, according to the Orange County Register. The plot was   
   reportedly orchestrated by the businessman's sister.   
      
   According to the Los Angeles Times, Martinez was a powerful member of a   
   Mexican mafia who orchestrated murders while on death row and   
   communicated with a woman from Mexico using a cellphone he was   
   prohibited from having.   
      
   Lua, 25, was received from San Bernardino County on Jan. 31, 2019, and   
   sentenced to 19 years in prison for attempted second-degree murder with   
   an enhancement for use of a firearm. During his incarceration, he was   
   sentenced to two additional years for having a controlled substance in   
   prison.   
      
   Negrete-Larios, 33, was received from Riverside County on July 5, 2016,   
   and sentenced to 32 years and four months in prison for attempted   
   second-degree murder with enhancements for inflicting great bodily   
   injury, discharge of a firearm and street gang activity in commission   
   of a violent felony.   
      
   Beltran, 31, was received from Los Angeles County on April 6, 2023, and   
   sentenced to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder with   
   enhancements for intentional discharge of a firearm causing great   
   bodily injury or death and possession of a firearm as a felon.   
      
   There are a total of 623 inmates with condemned sentences in California   
   prisons, according to the state's Department of Corrections and   
   Rehabilitation.   
      
   In 2019, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed an executive   
   order that instituted a moratorium on the death penalty in the Golden   
   State. The order also called for the repeal of the state's lethal   
   injection protocol and the immediate closing of the state's execution   
   chamber at San Quentin State Prison.   
      
   The last execution in California was carried out in 2006.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-mafia-member-death-row-fatally-   
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