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Man who killed woman while robbing bank dies in prison
By argusleader.com- Katie Nelson
Published: 05/02/2016

An inmate serving two concurrent life sentences in the South Dakota State Penitentiary died at a Sioux Falls hospital on Friday.

James Smith, 63, was hospitalized after falling ill on April 21, Department of Corrections spokesman Michael Winder said. An autopsy is being done on Smith.

Smith was sentenced in March 1990 to two concurrent life sentences for first-degree murder and first-degree robbery in Lincoln County.

On Oct. 16, 1989, Smith and his accomplice, Paul Wood, robbed a bank in Fairview, documents from the South Dakota Unified Judicial System website show. Smith told all six people in the bank to get on the floor but they did not comply.

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