Harry Edward Pederson

Harry Edward Pederson, 73, died on March 5, 2021, in a hospice room at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville, Iowa, where he was held in the custody of the Iowa Department of Corrections. He had been in state custody for more than 30 years. The department announced his death and said he died of natural causes and that COVID-19 played no role.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Iowa Department of Corrections said Pedersen died of natural causes and that COVID-19 did not play a role.

Reported by: Iowa Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

Sources (3)

• Iowa Department of Corrections records, via UCLA Law Behind Bars UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project, deaths in custody
• Active infections in Iowa prisons drop to 143, with 18 deaths of inmates and staff Iowa Capital Dispatch, February 1, 2021
• Iowa prisoner dies more than 30 years into a 50-year sentence KGAN, March 6, 2021