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Name: Aleksey, Bayan |
| DOB: 11/08/1968 | |
| County: Orangeburg | |
| Incarcerated: 09/01/1998 | |
| Crime: Killed State Trooper Frankie Legard | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Allen, Quincy Jovan |
| DOB: 11/07/1979 | |
| County: Richland | |
| Incarcerated: 03/21/2005 | |
| Crime: Killed homeless man and co-worker. Transferred to Kirkland Maximum Security Unit on 12/03/2009 for stabbing a corrections officer | |
| Appeals Stage: Direct appeal to SC Supreme Court |
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Name: Barnes, Steven |
| DOB: 12/22/1979 | |
| County: Edgefield | |
| Incarcerated: 11/18/2010 | |
| Crime: Kidnapped 16-year-old Samuel Sturrup in Augusta, Ga., in September 2001, stuffed him in a trunk and drove him to Edgefield, where Barnes ordered four others to shoot Sturrup. Then Barnes shot Sturrup in the head. | |
| Appeals Stage: Direct appeal to the SC Supreme Court |
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Name: Bell, Jr., William H. |
| DOB: 07/20/1968 | |
| County: Anderson | |
| Incarcerated: 03/20/1989 | |
| Crime: Killed a school principal on the way home | |
| Appeals Stage: Awaiting mental retardation review |
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Name: Bennett, Johnny O. |
| DOB: 09/27/1970 | |
| County: Lexington | |
| Incarcerated: 10/19/1995 | |
| Crime: Killed a friend, Benton Smith, by stabbing him 64 times with a screwdriver and beating him in the head. Told authorities he snapped when Smith touched him. | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Binney, Johnathon |
| DOB: 05/09/1974 | |
| County: Cherokee | |
| Incarcerated: 04/27/2001 | |
| Crime: Watched a man and woman leave for work, broke into their home, stayed all day, then, when the woman - Judy Southern - returned from work, he shot her as she fled from the house | |
| Appeals Stage: SC Supreme Court denied post conviction relief 10/2/2009 |
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Name: Bixby, Steven V. |
| DOB: 08/17/1967 | |
| County: Abbeville | |
| Incarcerated: 02/21/2007 | |
| Crime: Killed a sheriff's deputy and state constable | |
| Appeals Stage: Pending appeal in in SC Supreme Court |
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Name: Bowman, Marion Jr. |
| DOB: 06/06/1980 | |
| County: Dorchester | |
| Incarcerated: 05/23/2002 | |
| Crime: Shot Kandee Martin after an argument, put her body in the trunk of her car and set it on fire. | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Bryant, James N. III |
| DOB: 02/17/1971 | |
| County: Horry | |
| Incarcerated: 06/25/2001 | |
| Crime: Killed Horry police officer Dennis Lyden | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Bryant, Stephen |
| DOB: 04/12/1981 | |
| County: Sumter | |
| Incarcerated: 10/14/2002 | |
| Crime: Killed three people in separate crimes - Willard Tietjen, 62, Clifton Gainey, 26, and Christopher Burgess, 35 - taunted law enforcement over it | |
| Appeals Stage: Pending appeal in in SC Supreme Court |
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Name: Cottrell, Luzenski |
| DOB: 11/10/1977 | |
| County: Horry | |
| Incarcerated: 04/07/2005 | |
| Crime: Killed Myrtle Beach officer Joe McGarry | |
| Appeals Stage: New trial granted by Suprme Court |
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Name: Council, Donnie |
| DOB: 11/01/1965 | |
| County: Aiken | |
| Incarcerated: 10/23/1996 | |
| Crime: Murdered Elizabeth Gatti in her home after assaulting her and forcing her to drink poisonous household cleaning solutions | |
| Appeals Stage: New trial granted through PCR |
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Name: Dickerson, William Oliver Jr. |
| DOB: 08/24/1976 | |
| County: Charleston | |
| Incarcerated: 03/11/2006 | |
| Crime: Convicted of murder, kidnapping and criminal sexual assault of 29-year-old Gerard Roper, who Dickerson wrongly thought was the man he saw in a video having sex with his girlfriend. Roper was tortured and sexually assaulted before he was strangled. Dickerson's father was serving a life term for an unrelated murder. He died in prison a few years ago. | |
| Appeals Stage: Direct appeals |
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Name: Evans, Kamell D. |
| DOB: 12/16/1976 | |
| County: Greenville | |
| Incarcerated: 09/22/2004 | |
| Crime: Killed Greenville deputy Joe Sapinoso and his father | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Evins, Fredrick |
| DOB: 02/02/1968 | |
| County: Spartanburg | |
| Incarcerated: 11/22/2004 | |
| Crime: Raped and killed a convenience store clerk | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Finklea, Ron O' Neal |
| DOB: 10/18/1973 | |
| County: Lexington | |
| Incarcerated: 09/07/2007 | |
| Crime: Killed a security guard during a robbery | |
| Appeals Stage: Direct appeal to SC Supreme Court |
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Name: Huggins, Titus |
| DOB: 04/27/1970 | |
| County: Horry | |
| Incarcerated: 12/13/1995 | |
| Crime: Killed a liquor store owner during a robbery | |
| Appeals Stage: New trial granted through PCR |
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Name: Hughes, Mar-reece |
| DOB: 01/27/1966 | |
| County: York | |
| Incarcerated: 09/22/1995 | |
| Crime: Killed York Deputy James McCants - transferred to Kirkland - Gilliam Psychiatric Unit on 6/30/2009 | |
| Appeals Stage: Asked SC Supreme Court to allow him to waive his statutory right to pursue post-conviction relief and be executed. Court ruled he was not mentally competent at this time to waive his right to pursue PCR. |
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Name: Hughey, John Kennedy |
| DOB: 10/08/1969 | |
| County: Abbeville | |
| Incarcerated: 10/30/1997 | |
| Crime: Shot Tesheka Harris and Luevinia Jackson, his former girlfriend, with a shotgun. Harris died from a solitary gunshot wound to the head, Jackson had a gunshot wound to the back of her head, from a maximum shooting distance of two feet; a large bruise on her face, likely caused by the blunt end of the shotgun; and a stab wound in her chest. He was arrested in Georgia and told the authorities "I killed them, it was an accident, the gun went off." Prior to the incident, Hughey left a note on his door: "As of this morning I will be dead. Love you all. Please take care of my kids. | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Inman, Jerry Buck |
| DOB: 12/19/1970 | |
| County: Pickens | |
| Incarcerated: 06/09/2006 | |
| Crime: Robbed, kidnapped, raped and murdered a Clemson University student in May 2006. He strangled the 20-year-old with her bikini top. | |
| Appeals Stage: |
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Name: Johnson, Roger |
| DOB: 11/15/1959 | |
| County: Calhoun | |
| Incarcerated: 02/27/1996 | |
| Crime: Killed a woman with a machete | |
| Appeals Stage: died of natural causes on death row Oct. 7, 2010 |
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Name: Jones, Donald A. |
| DOB: 05/05/1961 | |
| County: Lancaster | |
| Incarcerated: 02/08/1984 | |
| Crime: Killed his former employer and assaulted the man's wife | |
| Appeals Stage: Awaiting mental retardation review |
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Name: Justus, Kenneth |
| DOB: 02/13/1967 | |
| County: Dorchester | |
| Incarcerated: 12/23/2008 | |
| Crime: On the evening of July 26, 2005, Justus murdered Justin Bregenzer. At the time, Justus was serving two consecutive life sentences at Lieber Correctional Institute for murdering two convenience store workers in separate armed robberies in Oconee County. Bregenzer was stabbed 11 times and died from a stab wound to the heart. | |
| Appeals Stage: Sentence affirmed on direct appeal by the SC Supreme Court on May 9, 2011. |
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Name: Lindsey, Marion A |
| DOB: 10/18/1973 | |
| County: Spartanburg | |
| Incarcerated: 05/24/2004 | |
| Crime: Shot wife in a police parking lot | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Locklair, Jimmy |
| DOB: 03/08/1972 | |
| County: Spartanburg | |
| Incarcerated: 09/23/1998 | |
| Crime: Received the death sentence for killing his girlfriend Tammy Bridges when she wanted to move out of their home. At the time of that murder, Locklair was out on $50,000 bond for killing Bridges' estranged husband Christopher Jones by shooting him three times in a church parking lot. | |
| Appeals Stage: Appealing post conviction relief |
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Name: Mahdi, Mikal |
| DOB: 03/20/1983 | |
| County: Calhoun | |
| Incarcerated: 07/23/2004 | |
| Crime: Killed off-duty Orangeburg officer Jim Myers - transferred to Kirkland Maximum Security Unit on 12/03/2009 for stabbing a corrections officer | |
| Appeals Stage: Direct appeal to SC Supreme Court |
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Name: McClure, David |
| DOB: 08/09/1977 | |
| County: Barnwell | |
| Incarcerated: 04/29/1998 | |
| Crime: Stabbed his father and his girlfriend to death | |
| Appeals Stage: Awaiting new sentence in district court |
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Name: Mercer, Kevin J. |
| DOB: 10/04/1977 | |
| County: Lexington | |
| Incarcerated: 04/22/2006 | |
| Crime: A Lexington County jury in 2006 deliberated less than three hours before recommending the death penalty for Kevin Mercer for shooting Sgt. 1st Class Tracy Davis, 35, a U.S. Army recruiter, to death outside Davis’ Fernandina Road apartment May 16, 2002. Mercer and an accomplice killed Sgt. 1st Class Tracy Davis, 35, a U.S. Army recruiter at Fort Jackson, because they wanted Davis’ 1999 Lincoln Navigator to drive to a party in Atlanta. | |
| Appeals Stage: Direct appeal to SC Supreme Court |
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Name: Moore, Richard B. |
| DOB: 02/20/1965 | |
| County: Spartanburg | |
| Incarcerated: 10/22/2001 | |
| Crime: Moore shot clerk Jamie Mahoney through the heart at Nikki's, a convenience store on Highway 221 in Spartanburg at 3 a.m. Sept. 16, 2001. A money bag with $1,408 was stolen from the store. | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Northcutt, Clinton R. |
| DOB: 07/07/1980 | |
| County: Lexington | |
| Incarcerated: 11/14/2003 | |
| Crime: Northcutt was 20 and newly married when he punched, squeezed, choked and bit his four-month-old daughter Breanna, who weighed 12 pounds, then broke her back on the rail of her crib because she wouldn't stop crying. He told investigators "I just sort lost it." | |
| Appeals Stage: SC Supreme Court overturned his original sentence, ruling Solicitor Donnie Myers was overzealous. Myers brought a crib into the courtroom and used a doll to demonstrate what Moore did. Moore was sentenced again to death by Judge James Williams in 2009. |
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Name: Owens, Freddie E. |
| DOB: 03/18/1978 | |
| County: Greenville | |
| Incarcerated: 02/18/1999 | |
| Crime: Killed clerk Irene Graves at a Speedway on Laurens Road with a .32-caliber pistol after she resisted opening the store safe. Owens said "Oh, well," and shot her in the head. The evening of his conviction while waiting for the sentencing phase, Owens hit Christopher Lee, who was also in the Greenville County Detention Center, in the eye, knocked him to the ground, and stabbed him in the eye with a ballpoint pen. He heard the man moaning and shoved the pen into the man's nostril, killing him. Owens has said he wants to kill more people than anyone in Greenville County. | |
| Appeals Stage: Pending US Supreme Court |
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Name: Rivera, Raymondez |
| DOB: 04/20/1978 | |
| County: Anderson | |
| Incarcerated: 12/19/2009 | |
| Crime: Sentenced to life in prison for killing a woman he said rejected his sexual advances, he was given the death penalty for killing another woman while her 2-year-old watched. He told the court he was "bent on evil, a cold-hearted calculated killer." | |
| Appeals Stage: Direct appeal to the South Carolina Supreme Court |
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Name: Roberts, Tyree |
| DOB: 07/04/1962 | |
| County: Beaufort | |
| Incarcerated: 10/22/2003 | |
| Crime: Shot two sheriff's deputies during a disturbance call | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Robertson, James |
| DOB: 11/17/1973 | |
| County: York | |
| Incarcerated: 03/27/1999 | |
| Crime: Two days before Thanksgiving in 1997, Robertson killed his parents Earl and Terry Robertson, both 49, in their Rock Hill home. His mother's throat was cut; his father's head crushed with a claw hammer. | |
| Appeals Stage: Appealing post conviction relief |
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Name: Rogers, Timothy |
| DOB: 07/16/1968 | |
| County: Dorchester | |
| Incarcerated: 03/06/1994 | |
| Crime: Shot and killed nine-year-old Stephanie Burditt. | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Sapp, Jesse |
| DOB: 10/06/1979 | |
| County: Berkeley | |
| Incarcerated: 05/20/2003 | |
| Crime: Killed State Trooper Jeff Johnson | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Shuler, Charles |
| DOB: 07/17/1948 | |
| County: Orangeburg | |
| Incarcerated: 03/22/2001 | |
| Crime: Killed three people including his girlfriend's daughter | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Sigmon, Brad K. |
| DOB: 11/12/1957 | |
| County: Greenville | |
| Incarcerated: 07/22/2002 | |
| Crime: Killed the parents of his ex-girlfriend, David Larke, 62, and Gladys Larke, 59, by hitting them in the head with a blunt object. He also kidnapped and assaulted the ex-girlfriend Becky Barbare. She escaped by jumping out of her car and was shot in the foot. | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Simmons, Kenneth |
| DOB: 02/11/1961 | |
| County: Dorchester | |
| Incarcerated: 03/22/1999 | |
| Crime: Raped and killed an 87-year-old woman in Dorchester County in September 1996. | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Sims, Mitchell |
| DOB: 02/12/1960 | |
| County: Berkeley | |
| Incarcerated: 06/28/1989 | |
| Crime: Sentenced on murder charges in S.C. and California | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process, transferred to California prison system |
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Name: Singleton, Fred |
| DOB: 06/10/1944 | |
| County: Newberry | |
| Incarcerated: 09/19/1983 | |
| Crime: murder | |
| Appeals Stage: Found incompetent |
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Name: Stanko, Stephen C. |
| DOB: 01/13/1968 | |
| County: Georgetown | |
| Incarcerated: 08/18/2006 | |
| Crime: Wrote a book about life in prison then killed Laura Ling, his live-in girlfriend, by slitting her throat. He also sexually assaulted a teenage girl in his home. Stanko was on probation for a previous attack on a woman. Defense argued that Stanko had brain injuries, and could not tell right from wrong. He was given a second death sentence for the murder of Henry Turner, whose body was found the day after Ling was killed. | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Starnes, Norman |
| DOB: 07/06/1965 | |
| County: Lexington | |
| Incarcerated: 11/27/2007 | |
| Crime: Killed two of his friends and tried to cover-up the crime | |
| Appeals Stage: New trial granted by Supreme Court |
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Name: Stokes, Sammie L. |
| DOB: 12/21/1966 | |
| County: Orangeburg | |
| Incarcerated: 10/31/1999 | |
| Crime: Shot and sexually assaulted acquaintance Connie Snipes, 21, who lived near Bamberg | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Stone, Bobby |
| DOB: 09/19/1964 | |
| County: Sumter | |
| Incarcerated: 01/29/1997 | |
| Crime: Killed Sumter police officer Charles Kubala | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Terry, Gary Dubose |
| DOB: 12/01/1967 | |
| County: Lexington | |
| Incarcerated: 09/21/1997 | |
| Crime: Beat to death 47-year-old Urai Jackson in her Lexington County home on May 24, 1994. | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Torres, Andres |
| DOB: 07/30/1980 | |
| County: Spartanburg | |
| Incarcerated: 10/23/2008 | |
| Crime: Attacked 61-year-old Charles Ray Emery and 59-year-old Mary Ann Emery with a hammer as they slept in their Drayton home in May 2007. Torres tried to burn down their house by dousing it with gasoline and turning on the oven before stealing the couple's van. He also raped Mary Ann Emery before killing the couple. | |
| Appeals Stage: Direct appeal to SC Supreme Court |
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Name: Vasquez, Angel Joe |
| DOB: 03/30/1979 | |
| County: Horry | |
| Incarcerated: 10/05/2003 | |
| Crime: Shot two Burger King employees - 19-year-old Kuma Walker and 28-year-old Joseph Williams - after Williams fired Vasquex earlier that day for cursing a co-worker in front of a customer and her child. The bodies were found inside a walk-in cooler at the restaurant. | |
| Appeals Stage: Appealing post conviction relief |
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Name: Weik, John E. |
| DOB: 04/26/1967 | |
| County: Dorchester | |
| Incarcerated: 05/29/1999 | |
| Crime: Shot his ex-girlfriend, 27-year-old Susan Hutto Krasae, in the arm, chest, stomach, and again in the upper chest and face at close range with a 12-gauge automatic shotgun loaded with three inch 00 buck shot after the woman told him he could not see their 10-year-old son anymore. The son and the victim's daughter were in the mobile home when the shooting occurred but were not injured. | |
| Appeals Stage: Appealing post conviction relief |
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Name: Williams, Charles |
| DOB: 12/11/1982 | |
| County: Greenville | |
| Incarcerated: 02/19/2005 | |
| Crime: Shot his ex-girlfriend, 24-year-old Maranda Williams, three times in the back in a Bi-Lo grocery store where she worked. He called 911 from her cell phone and talked to hostage negotiators for 90 minutes. When the woman attempted to escape Williams chased, shot, and killed her. Hearing the shots, law enforcement entered the store and arrested Williams. | |
| Appeals Stage: Direct appeal to SC Supreme Court |
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Name: Wilson, James W. |
| DOB: 04/13/1969 | |
| County: Greenwood | |
| Incarcerated: 05/11/1989 | |
| Crime: Opened fire in an elementary school; killed two children | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Winkler, Louis |
| DOB: 03/24/1960 | |
| County: Horry | |
| Incarcerated: 02/08/2008 | |
| Crime: Facing charges of sexually assaulting his estranged wife, Rebekah, Winkler broke into the woman's condominium five months later. He knocked her son to the ground and said, "I told you I'd be back. I'm not going to jail you stupid bitch, and I'm not—I'm back, I'm back. I'm never going back to jail," then shot her once in the face at point blank range. He pointed the gun at the son and then left. | |
| Appeals Stage: Direct appeal to SC Supreme Court |
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Name: Wood, John Richard |
| DOB: 04/18/1967 | |
| County: Greenville | |
| Incarcerated: 02/16/2002 | |
| Crime: Shot Trooper Eric Nicholson five times after Nicholson pulled him over while riding a moped on Interstate 85. The driver’s side window of Nicholson’s car was shattered. Both of his pistols were secured in their holsters. Eight shell casings were found at the scene. | |
| Appeals Stage: In post conviction relief process |
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Name: Woods, Anthony |
| DOB: 06/24/1964 | |
| County: Clarendon | |
| Incarcerated: 07/21/2005 | |
| Crime: Strangled Joanne Dubose, a 53-year-old Manning teacher, in her home. Found with a sheet tied around her neck, and her right arm tied down; her legs were spread under the sheet, her tongue was protruding from her mouth, and her face was beginning to decompose. She had been dead for two days. | |
| Appeals Stage: Direct appeal to SC Supreme Court |