By Associated Press - Thursday, October 12, 2017

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) - A man serving a life sentence at Mississippi’s only maximum security prison for men has died.

The state Department of Corrections says 77-year-old Louis Young died Tuesday at the hospital at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman.

WLBT-TV reports Young’s cause of death is pending an autopsy.

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Young, whose criminal history dates back to 1958, was serving time for multiple rapes and armed robbery.

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Information from: WLBT-TV, https://www.wlbt.com

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