Overview

• Governor Javier May confirmed that Medina Sonda was found dead in his cell at the Villahermosa state prison known as CRESET.
• Authorities have reported preliminary indications of suicide while the Fiscalía General del Estado de Tabasco conducts forensic and investigative reviews.
• Medina Sonda was serving a 50-year sentence as the intellectual author of the 2017 feminicide of activist Emma Gabriela Molina Canto in Mérida.
• Judicial findings in Yucatán established that he hired hitmen to carry out the stabbing, a case that followed years of documented abuse and custody conflict.
• Context from the CNDH highlights deficiencies in Tabasco prisons, and extraofficial reports mention a possible injection as the cause of death, which has not been confirmed by authorities.