article_snippet: J.C.X. Simon, 69, and three other men participated in the racially-motivated attacks in the 1970s .
article_snippet: J.C.X. Simonwas one of four black men convicted of carrying out a string of racially-motivated attacks that killed 14 people and injured seven.
article_snippet: J.C.X. Simon was found in J.C.X. Simon one-man cell shortly before midnight Thursday, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
article_snippet: J.C.X. Simon was convicted of two first-degree murder charges, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon in 1976 and was serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole, the maximum sentence allowed In California at the time.
article_snippet: J.C.X. Simon was convicted of two first-degree murder charges, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon in 1976.
article_snippet: J.C.X. Simon was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole .
article_snippet: A federal judge eventually put a stop to the practice.
article_snippet: J.C.X. Simon, Cooks, Green and Moore were the only ones who were charged.
highlights_snippet: J.C.X. Simon participated in the racially-motivated slayings in the 1970s .
  
highlights_snippet: J.C.X. Simon and three other black men were convicted of targeting white people .
  