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| Death Row Inmate Dies of Heart Attack |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/06/2006 |
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A man who was sentenced to death in North Carolina 26 years ago, and served on death row longer than any other North Carolina inmate, suffered a heart attack and died last week. Norris Carlton Taylor, 61, died at Central Prison in Raleigh, said Keith Acree, a spokesman for the N.C. Department of Correction. Staff saw him clutch his chest and fall while he was sweeping the floor in a cell block, Acree said. Taylor was taken to the prison's hospital and staff tried to revive him, Acree said. Taylor, who was from Hampton, Va., was sentenced to death for the murder of 30-year-old Mildred Murchison, whom Taylor shot while taking her car in a parking lot in downtown Fayetteville. The shooting occurred after Taylor escaped from the Johnston County Jail, where he had been held for the killing of a model who was killed in 1978. Taylor kidnapped three women, and raped two of them, and kidnapped two men, fatally shooting one of them, while he was on the run. He also confessed to a 1975 Virginia murder. One of Taylor's lawyers said Taylor was one of five kids raised by a single mother who was probably mentally retarded. Taylor often was kept in a holding cell during his trial because of his outbursts. He did not like one of his lawyers and threw urine on her, Cumberland County District Attorney Ed Grannis said. One of Taylor's lawyers, Gretchen Engel, said many factors contributed to Taylor's extended stay on death row. Courts agreed to delay the case a number of times because of new decisions by the North Carolina and U.S. Supreme Court, Engel said. An issue pending since 2002 had to do with whether Taylor was mentally retarded. A law approved in 2001 said any person with an IQ below 70 may not be executed. Taylor's lawyers said Taylor's IQ was 58, but Grannis, who is disappointed by the slowness of Taylor's case, said his staff had evidence that disputed that. |
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