WAYNESBURG, Pa. (AP) - A Philadelphia drug dealer who murdered a man over a $200 debt in 1990 has died in the southwestern Pennsylvania prison where he was serving a life term.
Seventy-one-year-old Louis Thompson, was originally sentenced to death in the April 13, 1990 shooting of 33-year-old William Moye outside a crack house.
Thompson had his death penalty overturned on appeal in 2004 and was serving his life sentence at the State Correctional Institute-Greene in Waynesburg when he died in his cell on Tuesday.
The Greene County coroner’s office on Monday says Thompson died of coronary artery disease and prostate cancer. His body has been returned to the Philadelphia area for burial.
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