BOSTON (AP) _ Nicholas Montos, the oldest prison inmate in Massachusetts and a career criminal who was the first person to make the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list twice, died Sunday. He was 92.

Montos died of natural causes at a hospital, Department of Correction spokeswoman Diane Wiffin said. Montos had said in a request to commute his sentence that he was being treated for prostate cancer , hypertension, arthritis and gout, among other ailments.

Montos was serving 33 to 40 years for robbery in state prison in Norfolk.

He made the FBI's Most Wanted list in 1952 after he and two other men pistol-whipped a 74-year-old man during a robbery in Georgia. He was caught in 1954 but made the Most Wanted list again two years later when he used a hacksaw to escape from a Mississippi prison. Montos was captured 26 days later.

Montos was the only Massachusetts inmate in his 90s. The next oldest is 85.

At the time of his death, he was waiting on the request to Gov. Deval Patrick to commute his sentence. The state Parole Board had turned down a request for parole earlier this year.