At approximately 4:30 p.m., on Wednesday, Douglas Belt, an inmate at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, was pronounced deceased by facility medical staff, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.

Belt, 54, was sentenced to death in Sedgwick County after a 2004 conviction for Capital Murder, intentional and premeditated killing in the commission of, or subsequent to rape.

As is the case with all inmate deaths, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation was notified in accordance with K.S.A. 75-52,147. No further information is available at this time.