By Jill Stanley Cohen, Cohen & Cohen PC ( April 21, 2017, 4:26 PM EDT) -- Aaron Hernandez, former New England Patriots tight end, was convicted of first degree murder in 2015 for the 2013 death of Odin Lloyd, the boyfriend of his girlfriend's sister. Per Massachusetts law, Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He was serving his sentence at Souza-Baranowksi Correctional Center, an all-male, maximum security facility located in Shirley, Massachusetts, which, when it opened in 1998, was lauded as being one of the most technologically advanced prisons in the United States. It is also where on April 19, 2017, Aaron Hernandez committed suicide. He attached his bed sheet to a window in his cell and hanged himself. He killed himself despite the fact that just days earlier he was acquitted of the murder of two Cape Verdean immigrants, Safiro Furtado and Daniel de Abreu....