U.S. officials say a 59-year-old man on federal death row in Terre Haute has died.
Prison officials said over the weekend that they found Nasih Khalil Ra’id unresponsive early Friday at the Federal Correctional Complex.
The man, who went by Ra'id rather than his legal name, Odell Corley, was sentenced to death in 2004 on charges related to a deadly bank robbery.
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In an emailed statement, a U.S. prisons official wrote that employees started life-saving measures while they waited for emergency responders to arrive.
The official added that E-M-S staff pronounced the man dead.
“No employees or other incarcerated individuals were injured and at no time was the public in danger,” according to the statement.
A spokesperson for the prison bureau declined to explain what caused Ra'id to become unresponsive but said the FBI was notified of the death.
"At this time, the FBI has no further comment on this matter," Steven Secor, an FBI official, wrote in an email Monday.
Court records show Ra’id had been in Terre Haute since 2005.
A federal jury in Indiana sentenced him to death after finding him guilty of multiple charges connected to a deadly bank robbery in Porter, Indiana, in 2002.
The charges included murder and federal weapons offenses.
