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The death toll has eclipsed the 19 deaths caused by the state’s historic flooding in 2015, and closing in on the 26 deaths caused by Hurricane Hugo in 1989. In most cases in South Carolina, the ...
James Byrd Jr. was born on May 2, 1949, [11] in Beaumont, Texas, [12] the third of nine children, to Stella Mae Sharp and James Byrd Sr. [13] His mother was a Sunday School teacher and his father was a deacon at the Greater New Bethel Church.
John William King was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday for the gruesome 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr. ... A white supremacist convicted of killing James Byrd Jr. in 1998 by dragging ...
[18] [2] The case against Booth was dropped, while McCray, publisher of The Lighthouse and Informer, South Carolina's largest circulating African-American newspaper of that time, was eventually fined $3000 and later sentenced to a 3-month term on a chain gang in Newberry, South Carolina, for allegedly violating the terms of his probation when ...
He was convicted in 1983 after sexually assaulting a 73-year-old woman and strangling her to death with a bedsheet in Newberry County. S.C’s most recent death row inmate, Jerome Jenkins, Jr., 30 ...
Newberry is a city in Newberry County, South Carolina, United States, in the Piedmont 43 miles (69 kilometers) northwest of Columbia. The charter was adopted in 1894. The population was 10,277 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Newberry County; [4] at one time it was called Newberry Courthouse.
Newberry County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Carolina.As of the 2020 census, its population was 37,719. [4] Its county seat is Newberry. [5] The name is of unknown origin, although one theory suggests that it was named by Quaker settlers in honor of their home of Newberry, a suburb of London in the United Kingdom.
In South Carolina, which on Friday will execute its first inmate since 2011, 43 convicted murderers have been executed by the state since the death penalty was reinstated here in 1976. Few death ...