After more than 30 years awaiting the death penalty, Gary Cone, 67, died Tuesday in a Nashville hospital. He died of natural causes, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction, and was pronounced dead at at 9:38 a.m. Tuesday.
Cone was convicted of armed robbery, assault with intent to murder and two counts of first-degree murder after he admitted to killing an elderly couple — Shipley and Cleopatra Todd — in their Memphis home in 1980.
He was sentenced to death in Shelby County in 1982.
Cone is the second death row inmate to die this month.
The state has not executed anyone since 2009. Tennessee slated execution dates for 10 men in early 2014, but in April 2015 all executions were put on hold.
After Cone's death Tuesday, 64 men and one woman remain on death row.
