( AP)  Authorities are awaiting autopsy results from the body of an inmate who died at the state prison in Tecumseh.

The Nebraska Correctional Services Department says 78-year-old Floyd Derry died January 21st.  He had been under medical care.

Derry was serving 48 years to life for second-degree murder and a weapons conviction in Deuel County.

He began serving his sentence in November 1994.