A man who spent 28 years on Alabama Death Row for arranging the murder of a police officer died Sunday, a little more than a year after he was resentenced to serve life without parole.

Larry Wayne Whitehead, 63, was an inmate at Donaldson prison.

On Oct. 31, he was taken from the prison infirmary to UAB Hospital for treatment of complications of natural disease, according to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office.

He died at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the hospital.

Whitehead was convicted in 1996 for the death of Albertville police officer and detective Andrew Whitten. Whitten was set to testify against Whitehead in an upcoming theft trial, according to court records.

In an appeal from 2014, Whitehead’s lawyers argued he was intellectually disabled and couldn’t be executed under the Supreme

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