SC inmate who killed state trooper gets court reprieve from death penalty. Here's why

John Richard Wood was sentenced to death in January 2002.

South Carolina inmate who believes he is immortal cannot be executed due to mental illness, judge rules

A judge ruled that a South Carolina inmate who killed a state trooper is incompetent to be executed due to mental illness ...
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SC judge halts death row inmate’s execution

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) — A circuit court judge has ruled that death row inmate John Richard Wood cannot be executed ...
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Autopsy finds South Carolina inmate died of natural causes

Authorities say Leo Jermaine Cheeks, an inmate at Lee Correctional Institution, died in the facility. Cheeks was found ...
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Judge rules South Carolina death row inmate not competent for execution

A South Carolina judge has ruled that a death row inmate, convicted of killing a state trooper in 2000, is not competent to ...

Death row inmate who believes he is immortal will not be executed

A US man who claims to be immortal has been deemed too mentally ill to be executed, after spending over two decades on death ...
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South Carolina inmate executed by firing squad for first time in US since 2010

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. The execution of ...