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PANAMA CITY— A man on death row for a 2008 murder in Panama City has killed himself in prison. Matthew Caylor, 50, had served 15 years on death row, and sources say he committed suicide on the night of the execution of Kayle Bates on Aug. 19, according to the substack Tracking Florida's Death Penalty.