LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man convicted of fatally shooting bank employees during a robbery in Nebraska more than 50 years ago was transferred from a Kansas federal prison back to Nebraska on Friday.

Deuel County Attorney Joel Jay applied for the transfer order on June 24.

Duane Earl Pope, 73, was released from the Leavenworth, Kansas, prison Friday and transferred to the Diagnostic and Evaluation Center in Lincoln to serve out three life sentences he received after authorities say he robbed a bank in Big Springs. Three people died and one person was paralyzed in the June 1965 incident.

Authorities say Pope drove from his Kansas home to the bank, where he demanded money and ordered four bank employees to lie on the floor before shooting each of them.