INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A state prison official says Orville Lynn Majors, who was convicted of killing six people while a nurse at an Indiana hospital, has died. The Indiana State Prison says 56-year-old Orville Majors was breathing heavily and became unresponsive when correctional officers were assisting with a medical pass at 4:33 p.m.

A medical emergency was declared and the correctional staff performed CPR and applied an AED. Majors was pronounced dead at Franciscan Health Hospital in Michigan City by the La Porte County Coroner just more than a half-hour later, at 5:11 p.m. on Sunday. An autopsy showed Majors died of cardiac issues and his death was found to be of natural causes, the Indiana Department of Corrections said. Nicknamed the “Angel of Death,” Majors was serving a 360-year sentence for the deaths of six elderly patients at Vermillion County Hospital in Clinton, Indiana in 1994 and 1995. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.Preliminary autopsy results show Majors had heart problems and died of natural causes, the department said.Majors was convicted in 1999 on murder charges that he gave lethal injections of heart-stopping drugs to ailing patients in the mid-1990s at the former Vermillion County Hospital in Clinton, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) west of Indianapolis near the Indiana-Illinois state line.
Indiana gerontophobe and prolific serial killer Orville Lynn Majors, believed to have committed as many as 130 nursing home murders between 1993 and 1995, dies in prison at the age of 56.