Longest-serving death row inmate dies after 42 years

Fred Singleton, an 81-year-old South Carolina inmate who spent 42 years on death row, died of natural causes in a prison hospital. Sentenced in 1983 for the murder of 73-year-old Elizabeth Lominick, Singleton was deemed incompetent for execution, leaving him in legal limbo, and his passing reduces the state’s death row population to 24 inmates.

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