US inmate spared execution eight times dies at 101

Francis Clifford Smith, who spent more than seven decades behind bars after being convicted of murder and was spared execution eight times, has died at the age of 101.Smith, who was believed to be the longest-serving prisoner in the United States, died in June at a care facility in Connecticut, where he had spent the final years of his life under supervised parole.He was 25 when he was convicted in 1950 of the first-degree murder of Grover Hart, a night watchman at a Connecticut yacht club. Smi