South Carolina's first execution in 6 years set for Dec. 1
Source: Associated Press
Meg Kinnard, Associated Press
Updated 3:56 pm, Friday, November 17, 2017
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has scheduled its first execution in more than six years.
The State Department of Corrections said Friday it had received an order from the state Supreme Court setting a Dec. 1 execution date for 52-year-old Bobby Wayne Stone.
Stone has been on South Carolina's death row for 20 years, convicted of murder in the 1996 slaying of Sumter County sheriff's Sgt. Charlie Kubala.
Stone has acknowledged he shot Kubala as the officer responded to a call in February 1996, but said the shooting was accidental.
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