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| McWee Wants Life Sentence,
Not Death Penalty |
 (Columbia-AP) -- An inmate scheduled to die
Friday by lethal injection for killing an Aiken County
convenience store clerk has asked the governor to spare his
life.
Lawyers for Jerry McWee say his death sentence
should be commuted to life without parole because they say his
co-defendant struck a plea bargain that may have kept him from
the death chamber.
A spokesman for Governor Mark
Sanford says he is reviewing the petition.
McWee faces
an uphill fight. No South Carolina governor has reduced a
death sentence to life in prison since the death penalty was
reinstated nearly 30 years ago.
The 51-year-old former
police officer will be the 30th inmate sent to the death
chamber during that time.
McWee also has an appeal
before the U-S Supreme Court, saying the jury in his trial
should have known he would have been 71 years old before he
became eligible for parole. |
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