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Posted by: Kate Prince on Oct 1, 2020

State officials say that 50-year-old death row inmate Marlon Kiser died on Wednesday of “apparent natural causes,” the Associated Press reports. Kiser was being held at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville where there have been 74 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus. Cause of death is pending determination by the medical examiner, but officials said there had been no COVID-19 cases in Kiser’s assigned housing unit. Kiser was sentenced to death in the 2001 deadly shooting of Hamilton County Sheriff’s Deputy Donald Kenneth Bond Jr. in Chattanooga.