Death
Leyva died from skin cancer on March 3, 2005, in the infirmary of Powhatan Correctional Center in Virginia. The state medical examiner's office determined he had metastatic melanoma, a form of skin cancer.
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And weep away the life of care
Which I have borne and yet must bear,
Till death like sleep might steal on me,”
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These new delighted lakes, conclude
Our kneeling as cattle by all-generous waters?”
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