A Quebec man serving a life sentence for six counts of first-degree murder has died in prison in Saskatoon. The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) confirmed on Tuesday that Steeve Racine, 62, died in custody on Aug. 7. Racine pleaded guilty in September 2002 to the drug-related murders, which took place between 1990 and 2001. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, with no eligibility for parole for 25 years. He was an inmate from the Regional Psychiatric Centre at the time of his death, according to the CSC. Two of Racine’s victims were killed in their home in Pointe-aux-Trembles in May 2001. Their six-year-old son was at home at the time of the murders. Two other murders took place in August 2001, when a father and son were killed in their home near St-Félix-de-Valois in the Lanaudière. Racine was arrested in Trois-Rivières in June 2002. Racine’s next of kin has been notified of his death. The CSC will review the circumstances, as they do with all in-custody deaths.
