Longest-serving US prisoner dies at 101 after escaping death penalty 8 times

A man believed to have been the longest-serving prisoner in U.S. history has died at the age of 101, having his execution scheduled and postponed eight times as he maintained his innocence despite a murder conviction in Connecticut. Francis Clifford Smith died in his sleep in late June at 60 West, a secured Connecticut nursing facility that cares for older people in the justice system, according to the facility. Smith, who was just months away from turning 102, was cremated without a funeral. "E