A 52-year-old convicted murderer serving a life sentence was found dead of an apparent suicide Thursday, the Department of Correction said.
According to a Friday news release from the agency, Anthony Griffin was found hanging shortly after 4:45 p.m. in a single man cell at the Ouachita River Correctional Unit in Malvern.
He was pronounced dead at 5:04 p.m. after responding correctional officers and medical staff were unable to find a pulse.
The Arkansas State Police and the Department of Correction will conduct separate investigations into the death, the release states.
The prisons agency said Griffin was serving a life-without-parole sentence out of Crittenden County for capital murder.