Gerald Powers, a Tennessee man who a judge sentenced to death 26 years ago, died Saturday on death row. He was 70.
Powers’ official cause of death is pending the medical examiner’s report, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Correction said. He had advanced, metastatic cancer at the time of his death, according to his attorney.
The correction department spokesperson confirmed in a statement the news about Powers, who was one of 45 male death row inmates in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. A jury convicted Powers of first-degree murder for killing a woman, Shannon Sanderson, in 1996 in Memphis…