South Carolina Killer James Earl Reed Set to Die in the Electric Chair
James Earl Reed Will Be Executed by Electrocution on June 20, 2008
During his 1996 trial Reed acted as his own attorney. During the trial he denied the killings yet he confessed to police. Witnesses testified that they saw him come out of the Lafayette's home after the shooting.
South Carolina allows for any inmate who is sentenced to die may choose the electric chair. The last person to be put to death in South Carolinas electric chair was James Neil Tucker in 2004 for the killing of two woman, Rosa Lee Dolly Oakley and Shannon Lynn Mellon.
A phone call to the Governor's office yielded no information on Reed except that the execution is still on schedule.
Robert Yarbrough is the next inmate scheduled for execution on June 25, 2008 in Virginia for murder and robbery of Cyril Hugh Hamby, age 77.
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