Autopsies set after deaths of 3 more Mississippi inmates
December 22, 2020 GMT
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The Mississippi Department of Corrections said autopsies are being done on inmates who died in recent days.
The department said in a news release Monday that William Stanley Wilson II, 42, died Friday in the hospital of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Wilson had been in and out of the hospital during the past year.
Wilson was convicted in DeSoto County of murder, kidnapping and first-degree arson. He was sentenced to 10 years on May 11, 2009, after pleading guilty to kidnapping a minor. A jury later convicted him of killing a woman and setting her home on fire in an unrelated case, and he was sentenced as a habitual offender on Oct. 28, 2009.
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