May 21, 2021- 11:03 p.m.
ANAMOSA, Iowa- Prison officials say an Iowa man convicted of stabbing his 3-week-old son to death in 1982 has died in prison.
The Iowa Department of Corrections says in a news release that 68-year-old Michael Cecil Craney, of Jesup, died Wednesday at the Anamosa State Penitentiary.
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The Courier reports Craney was convicted and sentenced in late 1982 of first-degree murder in the death of his son, Matthew.
Police say on May 5, 1982, Craney threw the infant to the floor and attacked the baby with a kitchen knife as the child’s mother tried to save her son. Prosecutors say the baby died after sustaining multiple stab wounds, a fractured skull and a slit throat.
Craney’s attorney argued at trial that his client was insane at the time of the killing.
