Inmate explains guilt and penalty phases of death trials
The interview outlines guilt and penalty phases, the possibility of retrials if reversed on appeal, and the long, memory fading process of capital cases. It notes Donnie Council and Steven Louis Barnes as inmates on South Carolina's death row and discusses post conviction relief and competency issues.
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Thurmond
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. District Court
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Council
Steven Louis Barnes
South Carolina
Aiken Standard Opinion on Samuel Sturrup Jr. Case and Barnes
Comments on the September 2001 kidnapping and murder of 16 year old Samuel Sturrup Jr. note Barnes and five others abducted and beat him before a fatal head shot. Sturrup’s remains were found after nine years. Barnes was later sentenced to death in 2010 and remains jailed in South Carolina.
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Samuel Sturrup Jr
Sturrup
Barnes
Columbia County
Georgia
S.C. Department of Corrections
11Th Circuit
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