COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s corrections chief has moved death row prisoners for the second time in two years, this time trying to answer concerns over inmate treatment raised in a federal lawsuit. In their new home, the 37 ...

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A man on South Carolina’s death row for 20 years for killing his parents refused to attend a hearing appealing his sentence because prison guards wouldn’t remove his shackles. James Robertson was taken Tuesday from death row in Columbia to ...

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Porter v. Clarke (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-076-17, 16 pp.) (Wynn, J.) No. 16-7044, March 24, 2017; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (Brinkema, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Although defendant prison officials have substantially changed policies governing conditions of confinement for Virginia death-row ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a South Carolina death row inmate who pleaded guilty to killing an off-duty police officer during a multistate crime spree in 2004. The justices on Tuesday left in ...

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Prieto v. Clarke, Director (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-041-15, 35 pp.) (Motz, J.) No. 13-8021, March 10, 2015; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (Brinkema, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit reverses a district court decision and says that Virginia’s policy of ...

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Most attorneys would tell you that trying to represent yourself in a murder trial, especially if you’re not an attorney, is a huge mistake. But it’s a mistake defendants have a right to make, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled ...

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A man condemned for decades to South Carolina's death row says prosecutors wrongfully pursued a case against him in a widow's 1982 stabbing death, according to a federal lawsuit.

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A man who spent more than a decade on South Carolina's death row for killing three women has died.

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