COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents 14 years ago was executed in the state's electric chair last night.
James Earl Reed was the first person electrocuted in South Carolina in more than four years.
He did NOT issue a final statement.
Reed had been on death row since 1996, when he was convicted of murdering Joseph and Barbara Lafayette in their Charleston County home two years earlier.
The execution had been put on hold earlier yesterday evening as defense attorneys successfully obtained a stay from a federal judge. But that was vacated by the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals.
A final effort to halt the sentence was denied by the US Supreme Court.
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