Elderly inmate dies in prison at Licking

West Plains, MO. – An elderly inmate died on Tuesday at the South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri. 

At 11 p.m. on June 27, 2023, inmate Roderick Stevenson was pronounced deceased. Stevenson was a 70-year-old offender serving a life sentence for the second-degree murder of Eston Lane, III in 1989 in Greene County. He was received in the Missouri Department of Corrections on April 26, 1990.

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An autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death.

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