MINERAL POINT, Mo. – The Potosi Correctional Center announced Tuesday that an inmate was pronounced dead Monday morning.
64-year-old Ricky Baskerville died around 1:30 a.m.
He was serving a life sentence for three counts of capital murder in Jackson County near Kansas City. He had been in at the facility since September 1979.
Potosi Correctional Center said an autopsy will be conducted.