From The Tribune staff reports
BIRMINGHAM — A convicted murderer has died in custody at William Donaldson Correctional Facility.
Clarence Coefield, 72, died around 3:30 a.m. on Thursday, September 1. Coefield was serving a life sentence for a 1973 conviction out of Lee County, according to Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates.
“The decedent was found unresponsive in the prison infirmary, where he was being treated for significant natural disease,” Yates reported. “An examination … found no evidence of trauma or foul play related to death and the death is believed to be of natural causes. The circumstances surrounding the death are being investigated by the Alabama Department of Correction – Law Enforcement Services Division.”
