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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A man from Pittsburgh was recently put on death row because of his conviction of murdering a SCI Somerset corrections officer. In March of 2025, Paul Kendrick received a guilty charge of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault and assault by a prisoner. According to a report from WJAC, a judge approved the recommendation to kill Kendrick yesterday even though Kendrick was sentenced to die in April of 2025. On February 15th, 2018, Kendrick attacked Sergeant Mark Baserman, which ended up killing Baserman when Kendrick was an inmate at SCI Somerset when he served two consecutive life sentences in prison for killing Maurice Freeman in Pittsburgh in August of 2014 when police confirm Kendrick killed Freeman following a game of basketball.