South Carolina’s longest-serving death row inmate dies of natural causes after 42 years in prison

Fred Singleton, 81, was sentenced to die in 1983 for raping and strangling a woman in Newberry County and stealing her jewelry, according to court records. He was the state’s longest-serving inmate on death row. Singleton spent his last three decades in prison in legal limbo after the state Supreme...

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