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Man executed in 1978 case in South Carolina
John Plath, 43, executed by lethal injection after four months since his cousin John Arnold was hanged for a racially charged 1977-78 case involving Betty Gardner. Plath declared innocence in a final statement, prayed aloud, and mouthed a message to relatives as the curtain rose. Gardner, 33, was killed after being picked up hitchhiking on St Helena Island.
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Columbia
John Plath
Plath
State Corrections Department
John Barkley
David Voisin
Betty Gardner
St. Helena Island
John Arnold
White
Gardner
Arnold
Betty
Supreme Court
David Beasley
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins
Iidn
John Blume
Ann Traylor
Gaston