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Carter County death row inmate found dead
By knoxnews.com
Published: 10/11/2016

A death row inmate died Wednesday at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.

David McNish, 63, was found unresponsive by medical staff about 5:55 a.m. in the prison's infirmary, according to a Tennessee Department of Correction news release.

McNish appears to have died of natural causes, according to the department. A final medical assessment by a coroner is pending.

He was sentenced to death in Carter County in 1984 after being convicted of first-degree murder in the beating death of his 70-year-old neighbor on April 5, 1983, with a glass vase.

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