Nevada inmate serving life sentence dies at 86

James Henry Burks (Nevada Department of Corrections)

An inmate serving a life sentence at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City died Sunday afternoon, prison officials said.

James Henry Burks, 86, died at the Regional Medical Facility about 4:50 p.m., according to a Department of Corrections press release Monday. The release did not specificy a cause or manner of death.

Burks was committed Nov. 2, 1999 after the stabbing death of Debra Ann Boykin, 42, in Las Vegas that year.

An autopsy is scheduled.

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