Longest-Serving Death Row Prisoner Dies Of Natural Causes

Darrell Wayne Hill, whose 25 years on Arkansas' death row made him the state's longest serving prisoner awaiting execution, died today of natural causes.Hill, who was 65 years old, was convicted of capital murder in the February 1980 slaying of Donald Lee Teague. Teague was a Game and Fish Commission officer who interrupted a gas station robbery in Pencil Bluff in Montgomery County. Prisons spokeswoman Dina Tyler says Hill had heart problems, liver disease and diabetes. He was admitted to a Pine Bluff hospital on Tuesday after complaining of chest pain and nausea. An autopsy will be performed. Hill's son, Jeffrey Timothy Landrigan, is on death row in Arizona. Landrigan was given up for adoption at birth and has never met Hill, but the two have corresponded. Landrigan, who was sentenced to death for strangling a man to death, has an appeal pending.