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Ex-Death row cop killer Warren Nutter saved from execution dies after 65 years in prison

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police officer.The prisoner spent six decades in jail after being saved from being hanged when his death sentence was commuted.The then 18-year-old went from the state's second-youngest felon sentenced to death by hanging to its longest-serving prisoner.The 84-year-old spent his life in prison after pleading guilty to killing Independence police officer Harold Pearce in January 1956.Nutter died on Wednesday after battling a chronic illness in a hospice at the Iowa State Penitentiary.At the time of his imprisonment, Nutter was just 18 when he shot 52-year-old Pearce.Nutter was originally sentenced to death by hanging making him the second-youngest lowan scheduled to hang but later his sentence was ultimately commuted to life in prison.The.

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