The department issued a press release on Monday, stating the details of Samuel Boston’s death.
Samuel Boston, aged 60, a convicted murderer, passed away at a Sioux Falls hospital on July 29, as confirmed by the South Dakota Department of Corrections Administration Office
The late Samuel Boston had been serving a life sentence for second-degree murder, specifically for the killing of Richard Gitter, aged 45, in March 2001 in Custer County. According to the case of State of South Dakota v. Samuel Wayne Boston 2003 SD 71, Gitter was found lifeless and unclothed in Boston’s bathtub.
Boston had maintained that both of them were intoxicated, and Gitter had passed out
Samuel Boston’s account of the injuries found on Gitter’s body changed on multiple occasions. Evidence presented including a camera with photographs of Gitter and the fact that the cause of death was determined to be strangulation, led to his conviction for second-degree felony murder.
The press release from the South Dakota Department of Corrections Administration Office did not disclose the cause of Samuel Boston’s death or the hospital where he passed away.
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