Long-serving Ky. inmate dies behind bars

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky prison inmate has died behind bars after serving 54 years for a 1960 murder conviction in the shooting death of a store clerk.

Department of Corrections spokeswoman Lisa Lamb told WRDB-TV (http://bit.ly/1BGIy8x) that William Gaines Smith died last month at University Hospital in Louisville.

The station reports he was among the longest-serving inmates in the state when he died at age 76.

He was convicted of killing 62-year-old Olin Alexander, a liquor store clerk in Lexington.

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